Former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the main planner for the Iraq war until former President George W. Bush replaced him, has died at the age of 88, according to a statement from the family.
“It is with deep sadness that we share the news of the passing of Donald Rumsfeld, an American statesman and devoted husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather. At 88, he was surrounded by family in his beloved Taos, New Mexico,” the statement read.
“History may remember him for his extraordinary accomplishments over six decades of public service, but for those who knew him best and whose lives were forever changed as a result, we will remember his unwavering love for his wife Joyce, his family and friends, and the integrity he brought to a life dedicated to the country,” the statement continued.
Bush selected Rumsfeld as Pentagon chief in 2001 and was the architect of the Iraq war until Republicans lost the House majority in 2006.
There were also several high-profile controversies during his time in office, including the detention of military detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison.
During the Obama years, Rumsfeld critiqued former President Obama’s military policies in Syria. He once suggested that Obama was “the so-called commander in chief.”
By 2016, Rumsfeld endorsed then-candidate Donald Trump for office. He said, “I’m a Republican, and there’s not any doubt in my mind how I’ll vote.”
“[Trump] has caused people to respond in a way that most politicians have not been able to do,” Rumsfeld told NBC in an interview in 2016. “I see someone who has touched a nerve with our country.”
Rumsfeld supported Trump even though the former president was a critic of the Iraq War.
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I’m all broken up
People think it’s hot up here, I bet it’s a HELL of a lot hotter where he is.
Burn, mofo, BURN!!!!
Maybe now he’ll find out where that trillion dollars of missing money went from building 7.
Most people remember him as a wise ass, sick son of a bitch, not the phoney touching crap this author writes about him.
I wonder if he’s roasting marshmallows with Philip, or maybe they’re sucking Satan’s testicles together.
Could not have happened to a better person. Lol
Thanks for the aspartame you cnut.
Donald-speak:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REWeBzGuzCc
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Just 87 years late!
Let’s all be hopeful that the thought of deaths like this come in 3’s
And that the other 2 are Hillary and Pelosi
Amen
Satan said leave your water at the gate
good ! why do evil people live so long
Must be the adrenochrome
The only thing tragic about the death of Donald Rumsfeld is that it didn’t occur in an Iraqi prison.
The scale of death from Rumsfeld—and Bush, and Cheney, and so on—are responsible for does not even make him the bloodiest American of his era. That would be Henry Kissinger, whom the historian Greg Grandin estimates is responsible for between three and four million dead.
Rumsfeld death toll is at around 400,000, still no drop in the bucket
but when do we get to celebrate Kissinger’s death ? hopefully soon ,and i hope its as painful as possible