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| Former US diplomat says Rumsfeld led Bush to war |
| 2003-08-17 |
| A former US diplomat who resigned over the Iraq war described US President George W. Bush as a "very weak" man led by the hand into battle by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Saith the very, very weak former diplomat Brady Kiesling, who was And that’s why Rumsfield is emperor of the world today... Kiesling — whose warning that US aims in Iraq were "incompatible with American values" struck a chord with the predominantly anti-war Greeks — described Bush as "a politician who badly wants to appear strong but in reality is very weak." He said Rumsfeld led Bush by the hand into war, marginalized the secret services who had doubts about the war, and emerged as the top politician in Washington. "Easy to convince, (Bush) blindly believed in Rumsfeld’s assurances that the occupation of Iraq would pay for itself," Kiesling said. "The longer we remain in Iraq, the more the resistance to the American presence is going to be a source of legitimacy for the extremists," he said. He called for an expanded role for the United Nations and the European Union in the reconstruction of Iraq. He also called for the name of Iraq to be changed to "Kieslingland"... Kiesling said he regretted that US intelligence services had not spoken out about untruths concerning Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, which he added had humiliated the United States and damaged its closest ally, Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain. Didn’t you just have to know that a guy named "Brady Kiesling" would have be a State Department drone, and not a Marine colonel? Talk about type-casting... it sounds like one of the yuppie creeps who hung out with Penelope in "Trading Places".. |
| Posted by:snellenr |
| #7 I wonder who's going to play him on "West Wing"? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-8-17 11:15:45 PM |
| #6 Good point, Zhang. I wonder what this guy's Saudi Pension Plan looks like? |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2003-8-17 10:15:15 PM |
| #5 Maybe this guy could be a training Op for a CIA class. |
| Posted by: .com 2003-8-17 9:56:24 PM |
| #4 Our biggest problem is a State Department run by and for spineless poltroons like Kiesling. If only they were just spineless - actually, they've gone over to the enemy. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2003-8-17 9:41:41 PM |
| #3 Hey Brady, I thought Cheney was Bush's puppet master. Newspaper readers in Athens must be pretty eager to gobble up this nonsense about Bush, Rumsfeld and Iraq but even they must be asking themselves a question or two about this guy. Aris? |
| Posted by: Tokyo Taro 2003-8-17 7:15:40 PM |
| #2 Our biggest problem is a State Department run by and for spineless poltroons like Kiesling. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2003-8-17 7:09:06 PM |
| #1 Here we go, low-ranking "former diplomat" who obviously hopes the mission will fail. And, who also obviously feels that it was better that 10,000 Iraqis were murdered every year, that's 200 a week, than to do anything about it. Quite the humanitarian. Quite the patriot. |
| Posted by: R. McLeod 2003-8-17 7:01:28 PM |