Decrepit Hippies Protest Rumsfeld in Boston

What a pathetic collection of human beings.

Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld got a rude welcome in Boston Monday night as he promoted his new book.

Several protesters tried to disrupt a forum with Rumsfeld at the Old South Meeting House, shouting and holding up signs as most of the audience shouted and booed them down.

"I went down in front and looked Donald Rumsfeld in the eye and said, 'I'm making a citizen's arrest,' said protester Nate Goldschlag, a member of the group Veterans for Peace, who had to buy Rumsfeld's book to get into the event.

"He lied us into Iraq. He lied about weapons of mass destruction. He lied about Saddam Hussein being involved in 9/11," Goldschlag said.

Four demonstrators were dragged out of the hall by police and one person was arrested outside the building for assaulting an officer with a bullhorn, police said.

Why are these liberals so violent?

Video at the link. The protesters looks exactly like what you'd expect.

Joe Klein: It Would be Fun to Torture Rumsfeld

Torture reading this moron

The ferret-faced freak is in the final spasms of BDS. So much anger and hatred. Forget the fact that George W. Bush has kept us free from terrorism on our soil since 9/11. One can only imagine how quick this asshole will be to torture terrorists if they dare strike during the upcoming era of Hopenchange.

Since we live in an advanced Western civilization, there needs to be legal justification when we torture people, and the Bush Administration proudly produced it. Memos authorizing the use of "enhanced" techniques were written in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Council. Vice President Dick Cheney and his nefarious aide, David Addington, had a hand in the process. The memos were approved by Bush's legal counsel, Alberto Gonzales. A memo listing specific interrogation techniques that could be used to torture prisoners like Mohammed al-Khatani was passed to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. He signed it on Dec. 2, 2002, although he seemed a bit disappointed by the lack of rigor when it came to stress positions: "I stand for 8-10 hours a day," he noted. "Why is standing limited to four hours?"

It would be interesting, just for the fun and justice of it, to subject Rumsfeld to four hours in a stress position — standing stock still with his arms extended, naked, in a cold room after maybe two hours' sleep. But that's not going to happen. Indeed, it seems probable that nothing much is going to happen to the Bush Administration officials who perpetrated what many legal scholars consider to be war crimes. "I would say that there's some theoretical exposure here" to a war-crimes indictment in U.S. federal court, says Gene Fidell, who teaches military justice at Yale Law School. "But I don't think there's much public appetite for that sort of action." There is, I'm told, absolutely no interest on the part of the incoming Obama Administration to pursue indictments against its predecessors. "We're focused on the future," said one of the President-elect's legal advisers. Fidell and others say it is possible, though highly unlikely, that Bush et al. could be arrested overseas — one imagines the Vice President pinched midstream on a fly-fishing trip to Norway — just as Augusto Pinochet, the Chilean dictator, was indicted in Spain and arrested in London for his crimes.

How sad. Get over it, Joe. I know you're upset that Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld have kept us safe. Perhaps you'll get your wish for more terrorism on our soil now that Obama is president. But you really should seek counseling to help get over your rage.

Hot Air links. Thanks!

French Toss Rumsfeld Suit

Another smackdown for the far left antiwar kook crowd.

French prosecutors throw out Rumsfeld torture case

PARIS (Reuters) - The Paris prosecutors' office has dismissed a suit against Donald Rumsfeld accusing the former U.S. defense secretary of torture, human rights groups who brought the case said on Friday.

The plaintiffs, who included the French-based International Federation of Human Rights Leagues (FIDH) and the U.S. Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), said Rumsfeld had authorized interrogation techniques that led to rights abuses.

The FIDH said it had received a letter from the prosecutors' office ruling that Rumsfeld benefited from a "customary" immunity from prosecution granted to heads of state and government and foreign ministers, even after they left office.

It said in a statement it was "astonished at such a mistaken argument" and said customary immunity from prosecution did not exist under international law.

The suit was filed in October during a visit to France by Rumsfeld.

The CCR is headed up by the odious Michael Ratner, who works hard on behalf of terrorists and is a generous contributor to certain Democrats.

Shocker: Rumsfeld Resigned Before Announcement

For some reason, Reuters acts as if this is a breaking scandal.

Rumsfeld resigned before election, letter shows

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Rumsfeld, architect of the unpopular Iraq war, resigned as defense secretary before last year's November election but his decision was not announced until after the voting, according to his resignation letter obtained by Reuters on Wednesday.

The letter was dated November 6, the day before voters, angered by Iraq, went to the polls and swept Republicans from power in Congress. According to a stamp on the letter, President George W. Bush saw it on election day.

Bush, however, did not announce that Rumsfeld would leave until the day after the election.

You can guarantee had President Bush rushed to the podium on election day to announce this, the media would have gone crazy, saying he's trying to influence the election. From what I recall, it was announced by 10 am the following day.

So what is the point of the story?

Allahpundit notes, so very accurately, what the reaction would have been.

Bush evidently didn’t find out until the day after and wisely chose to put it in his pocket lest an Election Day bombshell lead to nutroots screeching about the ultimate November surprise forever after.

Quite frankly, it wouldn't have made any difference. The GOP was doomed to fail in 2006, and it wasn't just displeasure with Iraq.

Had Rumsfeld left a week earlier, a month earlier or last summer, I just don't think it would have altered the outcome. Harken back to the weeks leading up to election day. It was Mark Foley all day, every day, and if it wasn't Foley, it was the infamous "macaca" moment.

I guess now they can concentrate on when exactly did Karl Rove pen his resignation letter.