July 13, 2005


Unintended bloggery

I was poking around looking for some stuff on Orrin Hatch, and Google, wonderful Google dropped me into this article. Take a couple of minutes and read it. You won't want to be sipping on that diet drink though.

Also at the center of the effort to land FDA approval of NutraSweet stood Donald Rumsfeld - "Rummy" to his friends - chairman of G.D. Searle upon leaving the Ford administration in 1977. Rumsfeld, the product of a wealthy Chicago suburb, was a Princeton graduate and a Navy pilot during the Korean conflict. He entered politics as a Congressional House aide attending night classes at Georgetown University Law School, which is closely aligned with the CIA.43

Rumsfeld campaigned ambitiously for Richard Nixon, who drafted him to direct the Office of Equal Opportunity on May 26,1969. He quickly established an office to spy on his employees in a holy crusade to flush out "revolutionaries" said to be granting federal funds to politically subversive organizations-a throwback to McCarthy's tantrums.44 Rumsfeld also figured in Nixon's notorious Power Control Group, spearheaded by Charles Colson and John Ehrlichman.

Talk about a trail of inbreeding...

posted by Jo Fish on 07.13.05 at 12:45 PM





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The American Hapsburgs.

posted by: The Fixer on 07.13.05 at 02:12 PM [permalink]



Holy Cow. You know you've discovered Internet GOLD when you find a page that links NutraSweet, "The Purple Ink Document" and the Jonestown Massacre...

It seems like just yesterday that this stuff came to market...

posted by: Echo4Mike on 07.13.05 at 07:00 PM [permalink]



Drinking the kool-aid.

I came across Rummy in COmmittee questioning LBJ's Halliburton connections during the 'Nam. Ironic indeed.

If the link would copy/paste I'd send it.

Meanwhile here's the New Yorker take on Rummy's Office of Special Plans:http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?030512fa_fact

"In 1966, Illinois Representative Donald H. Rumsfeld went perhaps further than most when he charged the administration with letting contracts which "are illegal by statute." He urged investigation into the relationship between the private consortium working in Vietnam and the Johnson administration, in particular the infamous "President's Club," to which Brown & Root, one of the principle Vietnam contractors, had given tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions. Rumsfeld argued on behalf of serious inquiry into the whole affair saying, "under one contract, between the U.S. Government and this combine, [RMK-BRJ] it is officially estimated that obligations will reach at least $900 million by November 1967...why this huge contract has not been and is not now being adequately audited is beyond me. The potential for waste and profiteering under such a contract is substantial." (Cong. Rec., August 30, 1966) Rumsfeld's alarm was echoed by others in the congress and in the press as well, although will little affect. All the while, the war in southern Vietnam continued to spiral out of control despite the dramatic increases in firepower and troops and military construction. The government's contract with the Vietnam Builders ended only in 1972 shortly before the Nixon administration itself quit the commitment to the
long failed project
."

careful this one is a DoD site...
Secretary Rumsfeld Interview with Jerry Agar KMBZ News Radio 980 Kansas City, Kan. Jun 30, 2005
Ted Kennedy is in the news this morning paralleling Vietnam and Iraq ... "One, is that the Americans weren't given the facts about Vietnam. And secondly, we always believed that there was a military solution to a political problem." ... The second point I'd make with respect to Ted Kennedy's Vietnam comparison, is that there's no one I know who thinks that there's a military solution to the insurgency. (DOD DefenseLINK -- News)


gtg joe wilson on CBS...

posted by: Mr.Murder on 07.17.05 at 10:31 AM [permalink]






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