The finest responses to Rumsfeld’s Iraq tweet
Bush's defense secretary tweets a call for "appreciation" for those behind "liberating" Iraqis. Incoming!
By Natasha LennardTopics: Iraq, Iraq war anniversary, Donald Rumsfeld, Twitter, Iraq war, Middle East, George W. Bush, News
As noted earlier, on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq invasion, marking a war that saw up to 134,000 Iraqi civilians killed and has cost the U.S. $2 trillion and counting, George W. Bush’s Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld tweeted that “all who played a role in history deserve our respect & appreciation.” And if there were ever a known known, it’s that such a tweet from such a man will invoke some pretty great responses:
.@rumsfeldoffice Except you & your bosses, you blood-gargling psychopath.
— rob delaney (@robdelaney) March 19, 2013
.@rumsfeldoffice Also you look like Skeletor from He-Man. Google it.
— Robin (@caulkthewagon) March 19, 2013
.@rumsfeldofficeShut the FUCK up, Donny.You're out of your element.
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) March 19, 2013
.@rumsfeldoffice Even YOU? Even shameful, despicable, murderous, ruinous, horrific history?
— Ruben Bolling (@RubenBolling) March 19, 2013
(A reminder of Rummy’s promise that it would be a “short war”:)
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) March 19, 2013
.@rumsfeldoffice Don't listen to 'em Donald. You had to run the shadow corporations for your fellow Lizard folk. No way around it.
— tonyfaulkner (@tonyfaulkner) March 19, 2013
@rumsfeldoffice This is a joke, right? What did the war cost again?
— Michael Tomasky (@mtomasky) March 19, 2013
.@rumsfeldoffice You do know you tweeted that out loud, right?
— Brendan Dodds (@BrendanDodds) March 19, 2013
.@rumsfeldoffice There's a story of the defeated Napoleon, facing the people of Paris, being spat on: "Give me back my son, you bastard!"
— Kevin Carson (@KevinCarson1) March 19, 2013
@rumsfeldoffice We've begun putting names of people who don't show "respect and appreciation" for history-makers on a watch list.
— U.S. Dept. of Fear (@FearDept) March 19, 2013
AHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA twitter.com/RumsfeldOffice…
— allisonkilkenny (@allisonkilkenny) March 19, 2013
Natasha Lennard is an assistant news editor at Salon, covering non-electoral politics, general news and rabble-rousing. Follow her on Twitter @natashalennard, email nlennard@salon.com. More Natasha Lennard.
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