Cocky Jingo Rumsfeld | Ambition over Integrity
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Cocky Jingo Rumsfeld | Ambition over Integrity
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The only thing tragic about the death of Donald Rumsfeld is that it didn’t occur in an Iraqi prison. Yet that was foreordained, considering how throughout his life, Rumsfeld escaped the consequences of decisions he made that ensured a violent, frightening end for hundreds of thousands of people.
An actuarial table of the deaths for which Donald Rumsfeld is responsible is difficult to assemble. In part, that’s a consequence of his policy, as defense secretary from 2001 to 2006, not to compile or release body counts, a PR strategy learned after disclosing the tolls eroded support for the Vietnam War. As a final obliteration, we cannot know, let alone name, all the dead.
On June 29, 2021
Satan called home his favorite son
Donald Henry Rumsfeld
Weapon of Mass Destruction
Killed half a million people
But Rummy died peacefully
Unrepentant, without remorse
Without reflection, of course
Rummy was right only twice in his life
The night he was born and the day he died
In between he sent our kids to war
Boys and girls mostly colored and poor
He lived inside his hermit world
Like Alice in Wonderland
Ambition over integrity
Complete irrationality
Half a million people died
Cause of Cocky Jingo Rummy pride
Military and civilian
Known and unknown
He smiled while he lied
He laughed as they died
On June 29, 2021
Satan called home his favorite son
Cocky Jingo Rumsfeld
Cocky Jingo Rumsfeld