And You Thought Your Boss Was Crazy

Posted by | December 12, 2014 09:00 | Filed under: Contributors News Behaving Badly Opinion Politics Stuart Shapiro

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The above memo is from Donald Rumsfeld’s archive and it is pretty revealing.

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Copyright 2014 Liberaland
By: Stuart Shapiro

Stuart is a professor and the Director of the Public Policy
program at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers
University. He teaches economics and cost-benefit analysis and studies
regulation in the United States at both the federal and state levels.
Prior to coming to Rutgers, Stuart worked for five years at the Office
of Management and Budget in Washington under Presidents Clinton and
George W. Bush.

18 responses to And You Thought Your Boss Was Crazy

  1. edmeyer_able December 12th, 2014 at 09:27

    The more they examine the memos and emails between the players the more the world will see how far over their heads they were in that whole mess. Also how corrupt the w administration was in waging war in a country that was absolutely under control saddam was w/a no fly zone.

  2. edmeyer_able December 12th, 2014 at 10:27

    The more they examine the memos and emails between the players the more the world will see how far over their heads they were in that whole mess. Also how corrupt the w administration was in waging war in a country that was absolutely under control saddam was w/a no fly zone.

  3. Stan Ubeki December 12th, 2014 at 09:31

    Has a kind of Messianic tone to it, don’t you think? We ran him out of Taos a few years ago.

  4. Stan Ubeki December 12th, 2014 at 10:31

    Has a kind of Messianic tone to it, don’t you think? We ran him out of Taos a few years ago.

  5. edmeyer_able December 12th, 2014 at 09:44

    After further reading that I’m wondering why they redacted the PS what are you bringing to georgies surprise party, I’m bringing more pretzels lmao.

  6. edmeyer_able December 12th, 2014 at 10:44

    After further reading that I’m wondering why they redacted the PS what are you bringing to georgies surprise party, I’m bringing more pretzels lmao.

  7. eyelashviper December 12th, 2014 at 10:30

    And a follow up memo requested that the data be sent in comic book form, in order to inform President W on a level he would comprehend.

    • mynameisjohn December 15th, 2014 at 22:02

      Comic books still have words, so that won’t work.

  8. eyelashviper December 12th, 2014 at 11:30

    And a follow up memo requested that the data be sent in comic book form, in order to inform President W on a level he would comprehend.

    • mynameisjohn December 15th, 2014 at 23:02

      Comic books still have words, so that won’t work.

  9. burqa December 12th, 2014 at 20:54

    TO: Doug Feith

    FROM: Donald Rumsfeld

    Please come up with a cure for cancer by Friday.

    The president has asked me to find out who put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp. He also wants to know who put the ram in the rama lama ding dong. We have a meeting tomorrow at 4, can you find out by then?

    Also, can God make a rock so heavy He can’t pick it up?

    Thanks,
    – Rummy

  10. burqa December 12th, 2014 at 21:54

    TO: Doug Feith

    FROM: Donald Rumsfeld

    I need you to come up with a cure for cancer by Friday.

    The president has asked me to find out who put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp. He also wants to know who put the ram in the rama lama ding dong. We have a meeting tomorrow at 4, can you find out by then?

    Also, can God make a rock so heavy He can’t pick it up?

    Thanks,
    – Rummy

  11. ChrisVosburg December 15th, 2014 at 16:42

    Rumsfeld writes; We need more coercive diplomacy…

    “ps: Goodness gracious, why won’t these silly countries do what we tell them? Heavens, if I’d known that they were going to be so awful, I’d never have gone along with trying to bring them democracy in the first place! Fixing all the other countries for their own good is HARD!”

  12. ChrisVosburg December 15th, 2014 at 17:42

    Rumsfeld writes; We need more coercive diplomacy…

    “ps: Goodness gracious, why won’t these silly countries do what we tell them? Heavens, if I’d known that they were going to be so awful, I’d never have gone along with trying to bring them democracy in the first place! Fixing all the other countries for their own good is HARD!”

  13. fancypants December 16th, 2014 at 02:26

    Nobody has called this fool lately
    lets keep it that way

  14. fancypants December 16th, 2014 at 03:26

    Nobody has called this fool lately
    lets keep it that way

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