Comments on: Rummy: Killing Us From The Inside http://www.oliverwillis.com/2009/06/30/rummy-killing-us-from-the-inside/ Like Kryptonite To Stupid Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:21:43 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Dennis http://www.oliverwillis.com/2009/06/30/rummy-killing-us-from-the-inside/#comment-159993 Dennis Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:02:44 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/?p=15164#comment-159993 <blockquote>Nothing. Just thought it was interesting.</blockquote> Duros, we've had our differences, but you're ok.

Nothing. Just thought it was interesting.

Duros, we’ve had our differences, but you’re ok.

]]> By: Amused Observer http://www.oliverwillis.com/2009/06/30/rummy-killing-us-from-the-inside/#comment-159989 Amused Observer Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:53:52 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/?p=15164#comment-159989 Duros, It seems so far that the last 2 big flu scares have been more or less a bust as disasters go. Both the bird flu and the swine flu got a lot of press. Have I just not noticed that before or are these sort of things being hyped more? Duros,
It seems so far that the last 2 big flu scares have been more or less a bust as disasters go. Both the bird flu and the swine flu got a lot of press. Have I just not noticed that before or are these sort of things being hyped more?

]]> By: News Reference http://www.oliverwillis.com/2009/06/30/rummy-killing-us-from-the-inside/#comment-159982 News Reference Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:23:44 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/?p=15164#comment-159982 http://google.com/search?q=Donald+Rumsfeld+Tamiflu http://www.snopes.com/politics/medical/tamiflu.asp <b>"Claim: U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld owns stock in the company that makes Tamiflu. Status: True."</b> Republican politicians making money from war and disease is okay to right wingers. <b>True.</b> http://google.com/search?q=Donald+Rumsfeld+Tamiflu

http://www.snopes.com/politics/medical/tamiflu.asp

“Claim: U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld owns stock in the company that makes Tamiflu.

Status: True.”

Republican politicians making money from war and disease is okay to right wingers.

True.

]]> By: Duros62 http://www.oliverwillis.com/2009/06/30/rummy-killing-us-from-the-inside/#comment-159974 Duros62 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:05:03 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/?p=15164#comment-159974 Nothing. Just thought it was interesting. Nothing. Just thought it was interesting.

]]> By: Amused Observer http://www.oliverwillis.com/2009/06/30/rummy-killing-us-from-the-inside/#comment-159966 Amused Observer Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:36:48 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/?p=15164#comment-159966 Well I followed the link to Snopes and read thier input. What do you have to say for yourself Duros? What's your point? Well I followed the link to Snopes and read thier input. What do you have to say for yourself Duros? What’s your point?

]]> By: Dennis http://www.oliverwillis.com/2009/06/30/rummy-killing-us-from-the-inside/#comment-159963 Dennis Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:28:14 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/?p=15164#comment-159963 <blockquote>No I did not. How big a piece does he own and when did he buy it?</blockquote> Here's about all you're going to find on it, AO...<a href="http://www.snopes.com/politics/medical/tamiflu.asp" rel="nofollow">Snopes...Tamiflu</a>, other than the conspiracy outlets. This is the kind of thing that if a similar type charge were made about someone in Obama's upper echelon, Oliver would have it tagged under 'Right-Wing Stupidity' too.

No I did not. How big a piece does he own and when did he buy it?

Here’s about all you’re going to find on it, AO…Snopes…Tamiflu, other than the conspiracy outlets.

This is the kind of thing that if a similar type charge were made about someone in Obama’s upper echelon, Oliver would have it tagged under ‘Right-Wing Stupidity’ too.

]]> By: Amused Observer http://www.oliverwillis.com/2009/06/30/rummy-killing-us-from-the-inside/#comment-159962 Amused Observer Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:01:15 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/?p=15164#comment-159962 No I did not. How big a piece does he own and when did he buy it? No I did not. How big a piece does he own and when did he buy it?

]]> By: Duros62 http://www.oliverwillis.com/2009/06/30/rummy-killing-us-from-the-inside/#comment-159960 Duros62 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:54:38 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/?p=15164#comment-159960 Did you know rummy is a major stockholder and former board chairman with the pharma company that makes Tamiflu? Did you know rummy is a major stockholder and former board chairman with the pharma company that makes Tamiflu?

]]> By: jrfunkenstein http://www.oliverwillis.com/2009/06/30/rummy-killing-us-from-the-inside/#comment-159883 jrfunkenstein Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:49:41 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/?p=15164#comment-159883 Another Bushbot who profited from the war? If only this still surprised anyone. Another Bushbot who profited from the war?

If only this still surprised anyone.

]]> By: News Reference http://www.oliverwillis.com/2009/06/30/rummy-killing-us-from-the-inside/#comment-159858 News Reference Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:26:02 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/?p=15164#comment-159858 From Justin Elliott's reading of author Bradley Graham's book on <a href="http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/06/book_rumsfeld_didnt_cut_weapons_programs_because_o.php" rel="nofollow">Donald Rumsfeld</a> over at TPM: Elliott: <i>"Rumsfeld valued his personal fortune at between $50 to $210 million at the beginning of the Bush Administration. The problem was many of the securities he held were in companies that did business with the DOD, which could put Rumsfeld in violation of government ethics rules. So Rumsfeld had to divest some of these assets -- a whole lot of them, it turned out. And during that process, which went "slowly," Graham reports, Rumsfeld simply put off canceling any major weapons programs, a move some on his staff apparently expected him to make. Rumsfeld's specific thinking is unclear. Graham writes: "Several of Rumsfeld's associates saw the secretary's inclination to put off big cuts early on as a direct result of his own financial situation.""</i> Republican Rumsfeld made a lot of noise about cutting waste in the military budget but apparently that only meant using too few troops to adequately defend themselves in the Republican's Iraq War Lie, it didn't mean cutting unnecessary military projects that Republican Rumsfeld was making money on. Big unnecessary military projects that Republican Rumsfeld was making money on were okay, but Rumsfeld <i>didn't</i> think it was okay to put enough money into proper planning, providing adequate troops strength, providing adequate body armor, or providing adequate vehicle armor. <b>It's called "War Profiteering" and Republicans did it on the backs and with the blood of American troops (as well as the American taxpayer).</b> From Justin Elliott’s reading of author Bradley Graham’s book on Donald Rumsfeld over at TPM:

Elliott: “Rumsfeld valued his personal fortune at between $50 to $210 million at the beginning of the Bush Administration. The problem was many of the securities he held were in companies that did business with the DOD, which could put Rumsfeld in violation of government ethics rules.

So Rumsfeld had to divest some of these assets — a whole lot of them, it turned out. And during that process, which went “slowly,” Graham reports, Rumsfeld simply put off canceling any major weapons programs, a move some on his staff apparently expected him to make. Rumsfeld’s specific thinking is unclear.

Graham writes: “Several of Rumsfeld’s associates saw the secretary’s inclination to put off big cuts early on as a direct result of his own financial situation.”"

Republican Rumsfeld made a lot of noise about cutting waste in the military budget but apparently that only meant using too few troops to adequately defend themselves in the Republican’s Iraq War Lie, it didn’t mean cutting unnecessary military projects that Republican Rumsfeld was making money on.

Big unnecessary military projects that Republican Rumsfeld was making money on were okay, but Rumsfeld didn’t think it was okay to put enough money into proper planning, providing adequate troops strength, providing adequate body armor, or providing adequate vehicle armor.

It’s called “War Profiteering” and Republicans did it on the backs and with the blood of American troops (as well as the American taxpayer).

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