Zakaria: Rumsfeld ‘Seems In A Parallel Universe and Slightly Deranged’

[ProSense]

Zakaria: Rumsfeld ‘Seems In A Parallel Universe and Slightly Deranged’

Newsweek editor Fareed Zakaria ripped into Donald Rumsfeld this morning on ABC’s This Week. Watch it:



Transcript:

I would make up a campaign commercial almost entirely of Donald Rumsfeld’s press conferences, because the man is looking — I mean, it’s not just that he seems like a bad Secretary of . He seems literally in a parallel universe and slightly deranged. If you listen to what he said last week about Iraq, he’s living in a different world, not a different country.

Zakaria may have been referencing Rumsfeld’s “glib” remarks last week when asked whether Iraq was getting “closer to a civil war“:

SEC. RUMSFELD: Oh, I don’t know. You know, I thought about that last night, and just musing over the words, the phrase, and what constitutes it. If you think of our Civil War, this is really very different. If you think of civil wars in other countries, this is really quite different. There is - there is a good deal of violence in Baghdad and two or three other provinces, and yet in 14 other provinces there’s very little violence or numbers of incidents. So it’s a - it’s a highly concentrated thing. It clearly is being stimulated by people who would like to have what could be characterized as a civil war and win it, but I’m not going to be the one to decide if, when or at all.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/30/rumsfeld-deranged

Calling a Spade a Spade (Iraq's civil war)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2747769&mesg_id=2747769

[Burried News]

1. Rumsfeld has Post Traumatic W Disorder.

And it's contagious.

[cliss]

2. Oh, somebody's just noticed?

I have been watching Don Rumsfailed with alarm, for the past 6 years. I absolutely, positively believe he is deranged. I've read his speeches, watched him in senate hearings, watched the little clip where he gets reamed by the CIA analyst.

Don Rumsfailed needs mental help. He really does. I've felt this way for a long time, that this man has started to move away from reality.

When you have a man who lies incessantly, who twists things around to fit his own agenda, who knows how to manipulate language to suit his own needs, and then spends the next 50 minutes talking about "The TRUTH, the way things are, Being TRUTHFUL, WE ARE RIGHT" and so on --

you know the guy needs help.

[gratuitous]

4. Surprising that Zakaria has noticed

He's been pretty A-OK with quite a bit of the corrupt Bush administration's shenanigans. I wonder what caused Mr. Zakaria to suddenly discern some derangement in Mr. Rumsfeld's manner? Or is Mr. Zakaria using "deranged" in the Hercule Poirot sense?

[jimshoes]

12. I agree and

I too have felt that way for a long time as well. Donny is 'round the bend as they say.

[teryang]

3. Let them eat cake

"Would you like me to read you some of my poetry?" "Did you know I write poetry?"

"This is my way of letting you know, what a great thinker I am, above the hustle and bustle of what may appear to be civil wars and all that."

His demeanor is reminiscient of the cultural affectations of top Nazi war criminals, Hitler and Himmler.

A good solution would be to put him on the burial detail for all the civilians he kills.

[justgamma]

5. Maybe it's not civil war,

maybe it's more like gang warfare. You get one of mine and i'll get one of yours. If they can't stop it in LA, how do they think they can stop it in Baghdad?
That being said, I say it's civil war.

[oldboy101]

6. Deranged Neo-cons

Rumsfeld, Cheney, all the other Neo-cons who had a
"vision" to change the world into a police state to
their liking using their puppet Dubya, have discovered too
late that their efforts have failed. Faced with huge numbers
of people dead by their hands, they have retreated into
self-denial. They are indeed all deranged and as long as they
remain in power, a continuing threat to the entire world IMO.

[cliss]

7. Hi, oldboy 101

Welcome to the DU! :toast:

I agree: the Neo CON's had big plans for the rest of us. Everything was going to be so easy......the US would be the "Benevolent Dictator" and rule the world. Everyone would love us.....NOT.

You will find like-minded people here:smoke:

[oldboy101]

10. Thanks Cliss,

I am not entirely a "newbie" to DU. I had hundreds of posts in 2004 when I was sure we were going to throw Dubya out! When Kerry did not quite make it, I so despaired that I stopped participating in DU.

However now we have a new election year, so I will try again. Meanwhile I quite forgot my previous log-on, so now I have to start all over. Anyway thank you for your welcome - back!

[ginnyinWI]

8. he's certifiable, and a war criminal to boot,

and only in an administration like this one would he ever not be thrown out immediately. But the others are just as looney so they don't notice.

I also believe that he knows where a lot of bodies are buried and could make a LOT of trouble for the rest of them if he wanted to.

[Disturbed]

9. Rumsfailed and Cheney created

The Office of Special Plans where cherry picked Intell from the CIA was fashioned to fit the Illegal Invasion
of Iraq.

[bananas]

11. k&r nt

[elehhhhna]

13. Rummy is way too tan to be working and paying attention this summer.

[ProSense]

14. Rumsfeld defines civil war, sort of!

Iraq sectarian violence high but it's not a civil war: Rumsfeld

42 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said sectarian violence has reached a high level in Iraq but is not yet a "classic civil war."

"Clearly, there's sectarian violence. People are being killed. Sunnis are killing Shia; Shia are killing Sunnis. Kurds seem not to be involved," he told reporters.

"It's unfortunate. And they need a reconciliation process," he said.

Some Shiites are moving out of Sunni areas and Sunnis out of Shiite areas, while other Iraqis are leaving the country to escape the violence, he said.

"Does that constitute a civil war?" Rumsfeld asked. "I guess you can decide for yourself. And we can all go to the dictionary and decide what you want to call something.

"But it seems to me that it is not a classic civil war at this stage," he said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060802/pl_afp/usiraqmilitary_060802235008

Dictionary? What an idiot!