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  • Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Hetter, The Wuss

    Monday, June 2nd, 2008

    Kill Them! We Are Going to Wipe Them Out!
    Presidential Bloodlust
    The Movie-Made War World of George W. Bush
    By Tom Engelhardt 
    TomGram

    Unlike Scott McLellan and his new book (designed to make a lot of money and try to create reasonable doubt against his own complicity in war crimes) former commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez got next to no attention for recording a bizarre outburst from The Wuss in his memoir, “Wiser in Battle: A Soldier’s Story”:

    It’s April 6, 2004.

    L. Paul Bremer III, head of the occupation’s Coalition Provisional Authority, as well as the President’s colonial viceroy in Baghdad, and Gen. Sanchez were in Iraq in video teleconference with the President, Secretary of State Colin Powell, and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. (Assumedly, the event was recorded and so revisitable by a note-taking Sanchez.) The first full-scale American offensive against the resistant Sunni city of Fallujah was just being launched, while, in Iraq’s Shiite south, the U.S. military was preparing for a campaign against cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army militia.

    Powell: “We’ve got to smash somebody’s ass quickly.”

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