Do Rumsfeld's Memos Prove He is a Co-Conspirator in Lying for War?

Question

According to the Washington Post, several memos have emerged from the desk of Donald Rumsfeld. Rumsfeld wrote as many as fifty to sixty memos a day. His staff called them "snowflakes." In one memo, he urged his staff to "Keep elevating the threat from Iraq." In another, he tells them to "link Iraq to Iran."
In his memos, he called the Middle Easterners "lazy" and said their oil wealth has spoiled them. He warned of future problems with Saudi Arabia.
It sounds very much as though Rumsfeld was a co-conspirator in the selling of the Iraq War. By urging the threat to be "elevated," he is following the command of his superiors, who were certainly doing their own elevating. Should Donald Rumsfeld be prosecuted for War Crimes? Or is he simply another Bush Administration liar who will get away with his dishonesty with no accountability at all?

Answer 1

It's more evidence that this administration wanted to invade Iraq and created a case for going to war when none actually existed. The fact that the new American embassy in Iraq is ten times larger that any American embassy on the planet offers proof that they are planning on governing Iraq for many years.

Their is plenty of evidence that Bush and co. are now using the same methods to justify war with Iran. PErsonally, I think everyone involved in making the case for war with Iraq should be impeached and handed over to the international community to be tried for their war crimes.

The pattern in Washington seems to be to have your underlings fall on their swords when they get caught doing your illegal work and then pardoning and rewarding them later. I'm not sure the international community would be as easy to manipulate in that manner.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

You are doing the same thing the Democrats have been doing for months - trying desperately to add any validity to the phrase, "lie based war," that you can.
There is no validity. The validity is in the evidence that was so compelling that, at the time the hard decisions had to be made, even the Democrats are quoted as believing that Saddam still possessed chemical arsenals. This is public record.
Really, get over it. Your beating a dead horse - or donkey, as the case may be.

Answer 4

Show me a politician who does not spin the truth to create a certain perception. That's what politics is all about. The sooner you learn that the better.

Answer 5

But I bet the fact that the Clintons are working hard to keep correspondences in the archives locked away til after the election doesn't bother you at all.

Answer 6

what else is new, we knew this all along.
ever since I found out on another matter that the government can lie all it wants, but I have to tell the truth, I haven't got a speck of respect left for them bureaucrats.

Answer 7

Things that happen in the past are called history. You can't change them. Things that haven't happened yet are part of the future. Perhaps it is better to concentrate on these things instead.

Answer 8

So interoffice instructions are now war crimes? I was at least expecting some claim that he absolutely knew we had false intelligence

Answer 9

god where does pelosi come up with this stuff. there is no conspiracy, there are no war crimes. grow up and move on...ok?

Answer 10

Blah, blah, blah.