LOL! This is too good. Rumsfeld Gets Icy Treatment in Taos

[cali]

Enjoy. I certainly relished it.

TAOS— This small mountain town is known for leaving its celebrities alone. That's why Julia Roberts can shop for yarn at La Lana Wools and Anthony Hopkins (aka Hannibal Lecter) can thumb through the pages at Brodsky Bookshop undisturbed.
But Donald Rumsfeld, former Secretary of Defense? That's a different story.
While living in Taos, Rumsfeld has suffered a number of public indignities, from being burned in effigy to being refused a hot chocolate by a bartender.
But last week's description of a verbal fracas aimed at Rumsfeld by writer Jeff Conant, posted on an Internet political newsletter at www.counterpunch.org, may have been the most unpleasant.
Happening across Rumsfeld, who was sitting on an outdoor deck at the Taos Ski Valley, Conant wrote that he raised his voice, saying, "Well lookee here! If it isn't Donald Rumsfeld, our favorite local war criminal!"

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http://www.abqjournal.com/news/state/549029nm03-23-07.htm

[saltpoint]

1. Stuff happens, Don boy.

[sutz12]

2. "our favorite local war criminal"

I like that!

:rofl:

[SpiralHawk]

4. One does wonder who his "least favorite" warm criminal might be...

Maybe that news will be issued along with the Top Ten Listing
of Best Dressed Republicon Cronies.

[catmandu57]

3. I'll have to see what the Horsefly says about it

that's the alternative paper in Taos.

[mike_c]

5. bwahahaha....

Oh that brought a smile to my face....

[live love laugh]

8. Mine too. I imagine BushCo thinks they will be able to walk away from DC

and live amongst the rest of us in peace. Bush better get used to that bubble, he'll need it for the rest of his life--so will Condi, Cheney and Rove.

[ClayZ]

27. I hope their bubbles have bars and locks!

[soothsayer]

6. and rummy's short, too!

[YDogg]

7. I imagine many Taosenos feel the same as Conant.

[cali]

9. That's what the article indicates n/t

[YDogg]

23. Yeah. I kind of meant beyond what the article mentions, however.

I've listened online to KTAO for about eight years, and it seems pretty clear that this sentiment is shared broadly across the community.

http://www.ktao.com

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

10. Hey, democracy is untidy. N/T

[WillyT]

11. Doesn't Rummy Wear Ice-Filled Underpants Too ???

Some bladder\prostate\penile problem that was rumored many moons ago?

:shrug:

If it's true, he's ALWAYS getting an icy reception, LOL!

[krispos42]

12. Or at least his urinal is...

:rofl:

[wakemeupwhenitsover]

13. Here's the story in counterpunch.

http://www.counterpunch.org/conant03132007.html

[otohara]

18. Wow - I Could See Myself Doing

something like this. Only the SS would attack me, wrestle me to the ground and handcuff me.

[wakemeupwhenitsover]

20. I wouldn't even get that far.

As soon as I saw rummy & started heading towards him, DH would probably throw me over his shoulder & haul me out. Of course, he'd have to figure out how to carry me & clamp his hand over my mouth at the same time. Maybe he would just drag me out by my heels.

[Cha]

19. Thank you, wmwio! That was

wretchedly priceless!

My admiration for Jeff Conant is boundless! :patriot: :patriot:

"Now look what you've done"! My Democratic :kick:.

[freeplessinseattle]

33. delicious

Then Mister Rumsfeld looked at me and asked, "What's your name?"

I told him my name (well, my first name). He scoffed and said, in a gesture reminiscent of the middle-school playground, "That figures."

The former Secretary of Defense of the most powerful country on earth couldn't come up with anything intelligent to say to me. And even if he could, I didn't want to hear it. So I continued.

"I just have to say, we know you are a torturer, and a murderer, and there is a growing number of people in this country who would like nothing better than to see you spend the rest of your days rotting in a prison cell."

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I turned my back on them and entered the building. With my adrenaline racing I stopped and shouted, as loud as I could:

"Hey everybody, Donald Rumsfeld's outside. If anyone wants to tell him what you think of his war, now's your chance. A real live war criminal, right here!!"

I turned and pointed towards Rumsfeld's party. "He's right over there!"

[Hepburn]

36. Right on!!

:applause: Boy, what I would give for an opportunity to call him a "lying war pig" to his face!

[whistle]

14. Nazi bastard! Rummy should be subpoenaed along with the rest

...of the BushCo crowd to testify under oath on national broadcast before congress and the American people

[cali]

15. This story was supposed to make you laugh

not raise your blood pressure.

[Tsiyu]

38. Some people have a tough time

yucking it up when thinking about a person responsible for immeasurable bloodshed and pain.

Nice story, but not nearly what the War Criminal deserves...

[LiberalinNC]

16. LMAO!!! I love it!

[Cha]

17. rummy should have been taken

to The Hague by now..so consider yourself still free, rumshit.

Bravo to the people who are out and about and have to be subjected to this traitor's presence but who call him out on his war criminality.

[The Count]

21. Why does Rummy get Secret Service? Wasn't he fired anyway? Blondes?

I thought only ex-presidents get that - and I read a lot of bitching and moaning about how much of our tax dollars are wasted on Clinton. So....why Rummy?

[Jacobin]

22. Tells you something that he has to have SS to go eat lunch

he should be guarded by prison guards at the Hague

[Homer Wells]

34. Could be BLACKWATER guards!

nt

[Senator]

39. We Want Him Protected -- In Case He Decides to Confess

You never know how long these types can keep up the facade. McNamara finally "came clean."

They're just people. They get older, get therapy, change their meds, crack under the withering stares of others, find Jesus, whatever.

The self-inflicted pressure of denial of that magnitude must be staggering.

If any of them have a "My God, what have we done?!?" moment, the rest will be coming with more than Dick's peppering pellets.

And there's no statute of limitations on war crimes.

--

[Rydz777]

24. Well, if it spoiled his day

driving Humvees up and down Iraqi streets waiting to be blown up - killed or maimed - has spoiled the days of thousands of his follow citizens. They would surely prefer to be in Taos drinking hot chocolate. Bring them home NOW.

[JohnyCanuck]

25. kick n/t

[skipos]

26. kick

[ClayZ]

28. K and R

[SalmonChantedEvening]

29. Heavens to Betsy! My Stars! No hot chocolate? Golly Jeepers!

:rofl:

Couldn't happen to a nastier guy.

Thanks cali :)

[glitch]

30. Maybe he'll get more respect in Paraguay.

Maybe.

[bluedawg12]

31. We go to Taos with the baggage we carry

not the baggage we wished to carry! LOL.

[SusanaMontana41]

32. and a kick

to get everyone's Sunday started off right.

:kick:

[Spiffarino]

35. And then Dick Cheney shot Conant in the face. n/t

[JohnyCanuck]

37. If I was there,

I would say, "Hi Rummy, why don't you level with us and come clean; was 9/11 LIHOP or MIHOP?" :rofl: (Not that 1. he would answer or 2. you could believe anything he said even if he did deign to respond)

[yurbud]

41. ask him why he changed the intercept regs the summer before.

[yurbud]

40. perfect revenge against these guys: let them privatize everything, then no one sell them ANYTHING

no food, no water, not even a square of toilet paper to wipe their ass.

Let them eat their money.

[yurbud]

42. maybe Taos city council should pass a "no war criminal" resolution--no one who authorized torture,

lied about intelligence, or started an illegal war can reside or patronize businesses in town. Then Rummy can come and prove it doesn't apply to him.

[yurbud]

43. "Hey, Rummy, burn the arms off any Iraqi kids for an oil company today?"