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KanekoaTheGreat, [30.06.21 13:56]
It's impossible to mention the border crisis without reminding everyone that the Mexican Navy seized 52,000 pounds of fentanyl off one ship in 2019.
The Mexican Navy intercepted the fentanyl shipment which originated from Shanghai, China and was bound for the Sinaloa Cartel home base of Culiacán, Sinaloa.
Undoubtedly, to be pressed into pills, snuck through the southern border, and to be distributed throughout cities in the United States.
This was enough fentanyl to kill 11.5 billion people or 1.5 times the world’s population.
In my opinion, this shipment is nothing less than a "weapon of mass destruction" and the mass production of fentanyl in China sent to the cartel to be distributed throughout the United States should be considered a part of theCCP's unrestricted warfare plan to take down the United States without ever firing a single bullet.
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Mexican Navy seizes 25 tons of fentanyl from China in single raid
Mexican government authorities reported a seizure of approximately 25.75 tons of powdered fentanyl in the port city of Lázaro Cárdenas, in the western Mexican state of Michoacán — and it came from China.
The Secretariat of the Navy of Mexico intercepted the fentanyl shipment which originated from Shanghai, China and was bound for the Sinaloa Cartel home base of Culiacán, Sinaloa, as reported by local media outlet Tobasco Hoy on Saturday.
Investigators discovered the fentanyl aboard a Danish vessel in a cargo container whose manifest indicated a shipment of calcium chloride.
.@realdonaldtrump was right.
China continues to pour poison into our communities.
More than 23,000 kilograms of Chinese fentanyl seized at Mexico’s largest seaport.
FINAL DESTINATION: USA. https://t.co/6n0LVeWRKH
— ONDCP (@ONDCP) August 24, 2019
When the Mexican Customs laboratory tested a sample of the contents, investigators found the powdered substance tested positive for fentanyl. The customs investigators went on to seize 931 sacks of the same substance, amounting to a weight of 23,368 kilograms (about 25.75 tons). Initial reports on the total weight of seizure are still only an estimate as authorities are still determining the total amount of captured fentanyl powder.
The seizure was the result of joint efforts by the Secretariat of the Navy of Mexico and customs enforcement members from Lázaro Cárdenas.
The most recent seizure comes just days after the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration announced a cumulative seizure of over a million illicitly created fentanyl pills, by the DEA’s Phoenix Field Office and various Arizona law enforcement agencies over the course of the 2019 fiscal year. The 1,138,288 pills are nearly triple the 380,000 fentanyl pill seizures estimated in fiscal year 2018. The high yield of captured fentanyl is an even further increase over just 20,000 fentanyl pills seized within the state of Arizona in the 2016 fiscal year.
Breitbart News’ Texas news bureau reported the dismantling of a Sinoloa Cartel lab fentanyl pill lab in Northwest Culiacán, Sinaloa last week. Some 2,500 fentanyl pills were discovered at the lab and authorities seized a pill press used to make “M-30s” or “Mexican Oxy” derived from the powdered fentanyl.
Investigators also determined the lab to be a training site for other cartel drug manufacturers. Breitbart reports that fentanyl has become a favored drug of production, lucrative to theSinoloa Carteldue to its easy production and accessible trafficking routes across the Mexican border into the U.S.
In April, Mexican media outlet Excelsior reported significant fentanyl seizures related to the Sinoloa Cartel and discovered an active Sinoloa Cartel fentanyl lab, seizing 33,000 pills and 25 pounds of powdered fentanyl in the process. Mexican government authorities at the time also found 13 pounds of heroin and chemical precursors at the cartel lab.
Fentanyl has been determined by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention to be between 50 and 100 times more potent than morphine and has been a major contributor to opioid deaths in the United States.
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2019/08/mexican-navy-seizes-25-tons-of-fentanyl-from-china-in-single-raid/
Dan Bongino
Democrats Planning to Change Laws to Target Single-Family Homes in the Suburbs
This is insane
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Democrats Planning to Change Laws to Target Single-Family Homes in the Suburbs
Joe Biden is planning to target suburban neighborhoods for destruction via a measure called the “HOMES Act” that Democrats plan to advance via reconciliation. That would mean that the measure, which would only require 50 votes to pass, would allow the Federal Government to take control of local zoning laws. From there, it would get ugly.
According to the measure within the transportation package, any local government that does not comply with the federal zoning guidelines, meaning “ordinances that ban apartment buildings from certain residential areas or set a minimum lot size for a single family home,” the Department of House and Urban Development (HUD) will cut off funding to that city – funding any city needs to maintain their current low-income housing.
Additional consequences for cities keeping their local zoning laws in place would be to punish states by prohibiting them from “receiving taxpayer funded transportation grants of any kind if they refuse to allow high-rise apartments throughout their high density zoning in their suburbs.”
States rely on federal transportation money to fix local streets and highways.
This would allow Democrats to force multi-family dwellings and low-income apartments into suburban neighborhoods. Crime would increase. Neighborhood traffic would go up. The value of homes would drop. It would also de-incentivize people to move out of cities in the first place and Democrats undoubtedly hope that making the suburbs more like the cities would cause voters in the suburbs to behave more like city dwellers.
If you live in the suburbs, this is an attack on your way of life and quite frankly, it won’t benefit you in any way, shape, or form. Quite frankly, if you live in the suburbs and are voting for the people that want to do this to you, you are a fool.
https://bongino.com/democrats-planning-to-change-laws-to-target-single-family-homes-in-the-suburbs/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=telegram
Pennsylvania’s supreme court has overturned Bill Cosby’s sex assault conviction after finding that an agreement with a previous prosecutor prevented him from being charged. The 83-year-old comedian has served more than two years in prison.
https://www.pacourts.us/assets/opinions/Supreme/out/J-100-2020mo%20-%20104821740139246918.pdf?cb=1
UPDATE -Pennsylvania official confirms Bill Cosby is released from custody.
https://t.me/disclosetv/3139
Dan Scavino: 45 OP-ED — “I built the wall; Biden built a humanitarian catastrophe”
https://twitter.com/DanScavino/status/1410288549103087617
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I built the wall; Biden built a humanitarian catastrophe
When I was president, I delivered on my promise to build a border wall to protect our country. All Joe Biden had to do was paint it.
Instead, Biden has enacted the most radical open borders agenda imaginable. This is perhaps the first time in world history a nation has purposely and systematically dismantled its own defenses to invite millions of foreign migrants to enter its territory and break its laws.
No one knows who they are, presenting a dangerous threat to Americans. To say that Biden has provoked a national security disaster does not even begin to do justice to the calamity.
In May, illegal border crossings were nearly 700% higher than when I was president during the same period last year. For each of the last three months, more unaccompanied minors have arrived than in any prior month in recorded history. Seizures of ultra-lethal fentanyl are up 265% from last year — more of the drug has already been intercepted than in the entirety of 2020.
Joe Biden has restored catch-and-release, torn up our hard-earned asylum agreements with Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, and announced that anyone on the planet who lives in a crime-afflicted area now qualifies for asylum in the United States. Meanwhile, ICE is effectively shut down, senior border security officials have been fired, and criminals are being released in record numbers.
To top it all off, the Biden administration has announced a new program whereby the U.S. government will literally pay to fly illegal aliens’ relatives from other countries to join them in the United States.
These policies are utterly depraved — the actions of someone who by all indications wants to completely abolish America’s southern border.
Yet of all the vindictive, shocking, and self-defeating border security actions Joe Biden has taken, none surpasses his decision to stop the final completion of the wall.
Nearly 740 miles of border wall had been fully funded and more than 660 miles were already built or undergoing construction, Customs and Border Protection confirmed on Jan. 15, five days before I left office. After more than two years of litigation and Democrat obstruction, the wall was going up at an average rate of two miles per day. We had already more than doubled the length of the physical barrier protecting our southern border. We had also replaced much of the previously existing dilapidated fencing with new impenetrable metal beams, focusing on the highest traffic areas that border patrol agents themselves had identified.
The wall was planned, approved, paid for, and virtually done. Only a few key areas remained to be completed. All Joe Biden had to do was let the contractors finish their work. The border agents wanted it, and it would make the whole country safer.
Instead, Biden sabotaged the completion of the wall, ordered an immediate halt to construction on his first day in office, impounded the funds Congress had appropriated and took steps to terminate the National Emergency declaration that had facilitated it.
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By stopping construction, Joe Biden purposely and deliberately left gaps in the wall, creating unsealed channels right in the middle of the border to be exploited by human traffickers and drug smugglers. I built a wall — Biden built a humanitarian catastrophe.
This decision has also done egregious harm to our sovereignty. As my administration clearly demonstrated, walls work. After my border wall was constructed, illegal border crossings dropped by 90 percent in the Yuma area and 80 percent in the Rio Grande Valley, and parts of El Paso. Illegal drug trafficking and human smuggling also drastically decreased in those areas. Building just 12 miles of border wall in San Diego alone reduced necessary border patrol manpower by 150 agents a day, saving millions of taxpayer dollars, and freeing up those agents to provide additional border security elsewhere.
As a result of Biden’s abdication of his sworn duties, Texas now says they will “build the wall.” This should not be necessary and is at best a band-aid over the gaping wound Biden created.
Border security is a core responsibility of the federal government — and my administration had already done everything required to complete the project. We secured the necessary legal authorities, acquired the land, designed, engineered, and tested the wall. With little help from Congress, my administration obtained the money, executed the contracts, and hired the personnel. For Texas to be unnecessarily forced to repeat these complicated steps will take months or years if it is even possible for them to do it at all.
Governors and state legislatures should certainly do what they can — but there is no substitute for federal action.
We handed Biden the most secure border in history. We ended asylum fraud, terminated catch and release, negotiated historic migration agreements with Mexico and other countries, and virtually stopped illegal immigration. Precisely because of these policies, we achieved an incredible 90% reduction in illegal crossings.
Our nation is being destroyed by Biden’s border crisis. The United States must immediately restore the entire set of border security and immigration enforcement measures we put into place — and critically, we must finish the wall.
A nation without borders is not a nation at all. For the sake of our country, Joe Biden must finish sealing the border immediately, or the American People must elect a Congress that will.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jun/30/donald-trump-i-built-the-wall-biden-built-a-humani/
@RealGenFlynn, [30.06.21 15:03]
https://twitter.com/bonginoreport/status/1410287690612936712?s=12
Bongino Report
Author https://twitter.com/LeeSmithDC tells https://twitter.com/dbongino no one should be surprised if https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson's spying allegations against the NSA are proven true. "If they spied on the President… if they spied on Mi
@RealGenFlynn, [30.06.21 10:11]
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/29/politics/nyc-mayoral-race-results/index.html
https://t.me/RealGenFlynn/247
@RealGenFlynn, [30.06.21 15:03]
Nothing to add to the brilliant Lee Smith commentary. He’s right.
https://t.me/RealGenFlynn/248
CNN Technical Director Charlie Chester Remains SILENT When Questioned By Veritas Journalist on Current Employment Status
https://t.me/project_veritas/733
[Forwarded from Patrick Byrne’s America Project (Patrick Byrne)]
EXCELLENT WENDY ROGERS LETTER WITH EXPLANATIONS
-- Original Message --
Received: 06/22/2021
From: "Wendy Rogers" <emails@rightsideamerica.com
Subject: Important Arizona Audit Update
Hi,
I walked the floor for three hours at the Arizona Audit, and I have some things to say.
First, let me say that the media wouldn't know the truth if they were hit over the head with it. The scope of their misreporting has been borderline legally actionable.
Second, Katie Hobbs is an inveterate liar whose incompetence and fraud are being revealed through this audit.
Third, anyone who still trusts the Dominion voting machines at this point, either wants fraud or is too lazy to hand count the ballots.
I am Senator Wendy Rogers, the Arizona State Senator who was a pivotal vote for the audit. I have been to the audit and I wanted to share the REAL scoop with you.
Here are some of my takeaways from the tour of the audit yesterday:
There has been an increase in capacity now:
From 17 to 32 paper inspection tables using microscopic cameras;
From 20 to 44 counting tables (yellow, green, blue);
From 4 to 12 aggregation tables.
The pace is picking up daily, with more audit forensics done each day. This process will be done soon!
Theoretically, mail-in ballots should all be of the same type, composition, and fiber with little to no variance. So if variances ARE seen, there should be an explanation; if there is no explanation, then that is a gap.
These are issues we can address with additional future legislation.
703 precincts were condensed down to 175 precincts. Every precinct has different ballots. Thus, if your ballot was "printed on demand", then the paper in those situations could legitimately vary… but the paper should not vary for mail-in ballots.
We now DO finally have the deleted databases folder that was missing for some time.
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Despite news accounts, it really WAS deleted. The media got this wrong, shockingly.
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It was CyFIR who discovered this, and they are none other than the firm who discovered the June 2015 U.S. Government Office of Personnel Management (OPM) breach, where SF86 forms used for Top Secret security clearances were compromised. The bad guys had been infiltrated into OPM for three years.
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Here is the reason that the databases are important:
Let's say a ballot box's pink slip says there are 200 ballots contained in the box. Really, only 99 physical ballots are actually IN the box (yes this is happening a LOT).
There should be TWO cross-references to verify this. The Dominion machine would have a batch number corresponding to that grouping of ballots AND Dominion should have the scanned imagery to similarly correlate to those ballots. Where are the remaining 101 ballots? Are they imaged in Dominion? Is their batch number tallied in Dominion? That's why we need the databases.
Noteworthy that both Dominion and Secretary Hobbs have declined the invitation to observe the audit, however everything is still being video recorded.
Now, will the AZ Audit be enough?
Yes, because it will inform legislation necessary to plug the gaps to restore the public's confidence. That is the reason the Arizona Senate is doing this, so we know the loopholes and can close them.
There was a helpful debrief from the Cyber Ninjas CEO. Here are the highlights:
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This has never been done before.
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It's really important for our democracy to be transparent.
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Unfortunately, technology has gotten in the way rather than helping.
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Where will we be if voters think their votes don't matter anymore?
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We have a solid AZ Audit team that is ready and capable to get it done.
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This is a calling. We will overcome any and every obstacle.
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He can't wait till it's over so that the participants can talk all they want about what they've seen!
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Physical data collection will be completed by the end of June. The report will follow sometime later.
I was also able to speak with a floor volunteer who is a retired USAF pilot. Here's what he had to say:
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[Forwarded from Patrick Byrne’s America Project (Patrick Byrne)]
Chain of custody procedures are as precise and flawless as Strategic Air Command's. Signing off of authenticators' "secrets" was not as stringent as the AZ Audit! Going to the bathroom for 10 minutes requires a sign-off.
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Laughable that the AZ Secretary of State said her machines were compromised when she initially said they were unhackable.
Here are the procedures on the floor:
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All volunteer counters must be from Maricopa county and have voted in the November 2020 election (they must have skin in the game).
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Tally sheets and ballots can physically move only if 3 things are present:
People
Paper
Camera
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Three components to the AZ Audit layout:
Counting
Aggregation
Forensics.
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Every worker treats the process on the floor as if he were in a court of law.
As you can see, and I could verify with my own two eyes, this audit is being carried out with the greatest of care and by true professionals who know what they are doing and care about our democratic processes.
The transparency here has been remarkable. Every citizen can visit the video feed and witness what's going on.
The best practices being developed here can be used for future audits, such as those being considered in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and other states.
We knew there was something wrong with the 2020 election at the beginning of this process. Already we are troubled by several issues and discrepancies that need to be sorted out.
I'm so glad we did this audit! But it only happened because I won my seat in a swing district!
I'm thrilled to see movements for audits in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and other places. They can use the procedures we developed for the Arizona audit!
The machines are a problem. The procedures were faulty. We clearly have work ahead of us to guarantee election integrity in Arizona.
I am bringing you updates because we know the worthless media will not. I want you to know the truth- the media only wants to shill for the leftist Democrats.
Help me keep my seat so we can see this process through, together!
Thank you and God bless you.
Wendy Rogers, Lt Col USAF (ret)
Arizona State Senator
Arizona's 6th Legislative District
PAID FOR BY WENDY ROGERS FOR AZ SENATE
Wendy Rogers is a retired member of the Air Force. Use of military rank, job titles, and photographs in uniform does not imply endorsement by the Department of the Air Force or the Department of Defense.
Copyright © 2021 Wendy Rogers for AZ Senate, All rights reserved.
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Delta Variant Found To Be Twice As Virulent And Blah Blah Blah Whatever Who Cares At This Point
U.S.—Scientists now warn that the COVID-19 Delta Variant is, like, more contagious and also, like… other stuff about it. Some of them have brought up masks again. I’m sure you’re rapt with attention about all this.
“It’s really concerning,” said some scientist named… I dunno. Who cares what his name is. Anyway, he went on for a while, but it all boiled down to… it’s still the coronavirus, but now you’re totally going to catch it for real this time. They are super double serious.
So if you’re, like, one of those Karens who loved worrying about this sort of thing, now you have new reasons for that while everyone else goes back to normal. You can yell at people, “You have to be more concerned about the Delta Variant! The Delta Variant!” and everyone can just kind of nod at you and then ignore you as usual.
Anyway, they say the vaccines are still effective against it, so I don’t even know why we’re still talking about this. Seen any good TV shows lately?
https://babylonbee.com/news/delta-variant-said-to-be-twice-as-virulent-and-blah-blah-blah/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=telegram
no way
What The Hell Is A Test Ballot Anyway? A Tool? A Utility? An Opportunity? Get The Facts!#ScanTheBallots #KinematicArtifacts #JovanHuttonPulitzer
https://t.me/KanekoaTheGreat/639
@DanScavinoJr
Take this brief survey for the Second Amendment Foundation — about gun control and the right to keep and bear arms!
2Asurvey
Do you support the 2nd Amendment? Take this short survey – let’s send Washington a message!
Unless more Americans speak up, the radical Left will only grow bolder in trying to ban and confiscate firearms from law-abiding citizens.
https://t.me/DanScavinoJr/217
Donald Rumsfeld, former two-time US secretary of defense, has died at the age of 88.
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Donald Rumsfeld dies at 88. The former Defense secretary oversaw Iraq, Afghanistan wars
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Donald Rumsfeld served twice as Defense secretary, for Gerald Ford and George W. Bush.
After the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Rumsfeld let the Pentagon's attacks on al-Qaida in Afghanistan.
In 2003, he and Vice President Dick Cheney shifted to Iraq's Saddam Hussein, whom the US ousted.
The abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison was among the controversies that dogged him.
Donald Rumsfeld — Republican powerbroker, controversial Defense secretary and architect of the Iraq war — died Tuesday, days before his 89th birthday, his family said Wednesday.
"It is with deep sadness that we share the news of the passing of Donald Rumsfeld, an American statesman and devoted husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather. At 88, he was surrounded by family in his beloved Taos, New Mexico," the family said in a statement released Wednesday.
"History may remember him for his extraordinary accomplishments over six decades of public service, but for those who knew him best and whose lives were forever changed as a result, we will remember his unwavering love for his wife Joyce, his family and friends and the integrity he brought to a life dedicated to country."
Former President George W. Bush selected Rumsfeld for his second stint as Pentagon chief in 2001. Rumsfeld vowed to shake up the military bureaucracy, seeking to make it leaner and more agile.
The Sept. 11 terror attacks changed everything.
Rumsfeld oversaw the Pentagon’s response and its initial attack on al-Qaida bases in Afghanistan. With stunning speed, U.S. commandos and airstrikes toppled the Taliban from power and a new democratically elected government was established.
By early 2002, Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney turned the Pentagon’s attention to Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden, nearly captured in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan, slipped away into Pakistan, where he was killed in 2011.
In 2003, U.S. forces invaded Iraq to prevent Hussein from launching attacks with weapons of mass destruction. None were found, and the mismanaged American occupation led to a guerrilla war and sectarian violence.
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Bush fired Rumsfeld in 2006, with the United States mired in grinding insurgencies that killed and maimed thousands of U.S. troops, and thousands more combatants and civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan. About 2,000 troops remain in Iraq supporting a fragile government fighting Islamic insurgents, and the last U.S. combat troops prepare to leave Afghanistan, where the top commander warns of a brewing civil war.
There were a series of high-profile controversies during his tenure, including the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison. And the detention at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, of combatants and others scooped up on battlefields in the Middle East continues to vex the United States. Most of the detainees have been released to host countries, but others remain awaiting military trials that have yet to be held.
From Princeton to Pentagon
Born in Chicago in 1932, Rumsfeld graduated from Princeton University, where he was a collegiate wrestler and commissioned as a U.S. Navy aviator and flight instructor. He served on active duty from 1954-57.
Later, he became staffer on Capitol Hill and worked as an investment banker. In 1960, he won his first term as a Republican congressman from Illinois. He resigned in 1969, and took a post in the Nixon administration, according to his congressional biography.
President Ford meets with Chief of Staff Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney in the Oval Office on April 22, 1975.
In 1975, Rumsfeld was selected to serve as the 13th Defense secretary — the youngest person to hold that position in the country's history, according to the Department of Defense's historical website. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by former President Gerald Ford.
After working in the private sector for 23 years, Rumsfeld returned to his formerly held position, assuming the role of the 21st secretary of Defense in Bush's administration. He was appointed to that role in January 2001.
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld briefs reporters with US Joint Chief of Staff General Hugh Shelton (L) and US Senator John Warner (R), R-VA on Sept. 11, 2001 in Washington, DC, following terrorist attacks in New York and the Pentagon.
War in Iraq
In the spring of 2003, U.S. forces moved quickly to seize Baghdad. Iraqi troops seemed to fade away, but there were soon signs of civil unrest. Looting was rampant, and Rumsfeld famously dismissed news reports, saying “stuff happens” and predicted “wonderful things” for Iraqis.
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“And does that mean you couldn't go in there and take a television camera or get a still photographer and take a picture of something that was imperfect, untidy?” Rumsfeld told reporters at the Pentagon. “I could do that in any city in America. Think what's happened in our cities when we've had riots and problems and looting. Stuff happens!”
He went on to upbraid reporters, saying it was a “fundamental misunderstanding” to infer from the images that Iraq teetered toward chaos.
“But in terms of what's going on in that country, it is a fundamental misunderstanding to see those images over and over and over again of some boy walking out with a vase and say, ‘Oh, my goodness, you didn't have a plan.’ That's nonsense,” Rumsfeld said. “They know what they're doing. And they're doing a terrific job. And it's untidy. And freedom's untidy. And free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things. They're also free to live their lives and do wonderful things. And that's what's going to happen here.”
The provisional government in Iraq, led by a U.S. diplomat, disbanded the Iraqi army. Many of those disaffected troops would join the growing insurgency. So Rumsfeld’s plan to withdraw most U.S. troops was abandoned. Instead more troops would be deployed in Iraq in a wearying, bloody succession of skirmishes and battles.
By 2004, the insurgents’ weapon of choice was the roadside bomb, known in the military as the improvised explosive device. It tore through poorly protected vehicles like the Humvee and became the No. 1 killer of U.S. troops.
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld speaks to USA TODAY editorial board in a meeting at the Pentagon Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2001
Rumsfeld dismissed complaints from troops in combat that they were ill-prepared for the fight.
“As you know, you go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you might want or wish to have at a later time,” Rumsfeld said in 2004. “You can have all the armor in the world on a tank, and a tank can be blown up. And you can have an up-armored Humvee, and it can be blown up.”
Rumsfeld’s Pentagon would receive urgent requests from commanders in the field for armored trucks known as Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles, or MRAPs. Those requests would be shelved, or delayed. Rumfeld’s successor, Robert Gates made MRAPs the Pentagon’s top priority after reading a report in USA TODAY about their effectiveness.
By 2006, the wars and Rumsfeld’s handling of them had become a political liability for Bush. He fired Rumsfeld shortly after the midterm elections and replaced him with Gates.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/06/30/donald-rumsfeld-dies-ex-pentagon-chief-iraq-afghanistan-wars/7810730002/
Donald Rumsfeld, former defense secretary at helm of 2 wars, dead at 88
Donald Rumsfeld, who charted an impressive Washington career serving under four presidents but whose legacy largely was defined by his controversial tenure as defense secretary during the Iraq war, has died, his family announced Wednesday. He was 88.
Rumsfeld, a confident adviser to power with a trenchant style that made him admirers as well as enemies, had a long and winding career in public life that spanned five decades. He had been a congressman and a White House chief of staff, and had a successful corporate career, too. But it was his second term as secretary of Defense from 2001 to 2006 – during the most tumultuous period of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars – for which he is most known.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/donald-rumsfeld-dead
Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who oversaw Iraq war, dies at 88
WASHINGTON – Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has died at the age of 88, his family said Wednesday.
“It is with deep sadness that we share the news of the passing of Donald Rumsfeld, an American statesman and devoted husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather. At 88, he was surrounded by family in his beloved Taos, New Mexico,” the statement read.
“History may remember him for his extraordinary accomplishments over six decades of public service, but for those who knew him best and whose lives were forever changed as a result, we will remember his unwavering love for his wife Joyce, his family and friends, and the integrity he brought to a life dedicated to country.”
Rumsfeld, who served in the Republican administrations of Presidents Gerald Ford and George W. Bush, oversaw the Pentagon’s response to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/30/former-defense-secretary-donald-rumsfeld-dead-at-88.html
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Donald Rumsfeld, Defense Secretary Under 2 Presidents, Is Dead at 88
Mr. Rumsfeld, who served under Gerald Ford and George W. Bush, was in charge of the invasion of Iraq and later said that the removal of Saddam Hussein had “created a more stable and secure world.”
Donald H. Rumsfeld in 2000, between Vice President-elect Dick Cheney and President-elect George W. Bush, who chose Mr. Rumsfeld to be his secretary of defense.
By Robert D. McFadden
June 30, 2021, 3:27 p.m. ET
Donald H. Rumsfeld, the secretary of defense for Presidents Gerald R. Ford and George W. Bush, who presided over America’s Cold War strategies in the 1970s and, in the new world of terrorism decades later, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, died on Tuesday at his home in Taos, N.M. He was 88.
The cause was multiple myeloma, said Keith Urbahn, a spokesman for the family.
Encores are hardly rare in the Washington merry-go-round, but Mr. Rumsfeld had the distinction of being the only defense chief to serve two nonconsecutive terms: 1975 to 1977 under Mr. Ford, and 2001 to 2006 under Mr. Bush. He also was the youngest, at 43, and the oldest, at 74, to hold the post — first in an era of Soviet-American nuclear perils, then in an age of subtler menace by terrorists and rogue states.
A staunch ally of former Vice President Dick Cheney, who had been his protégé and friend for years, Mr. Rumsfeld was a combative infighter who seemed to relish conflicts as he challenged cabinet rivals, members of Congress and military orthodoxies. And he was widely regarded in his second tour as the most powerful defense secretary since Robert S. McNamara during the Vietnam War.
Like his counterpart of long ago, Mr. Rumsfeld in Iraq waged a costly and divisive war that ultimately destroyed his political life and outlived his tenure by many years. But unlike Mr. McNamara, who offered mea culpas in a 2003 documentary, “The Fog of War,” Mr. Rumsfeld acknowledged no serious failings and warned in a farewell valedictory at the Pentagon that quitting Iraq would be a terrible mistake.
“A conclusion by our enemies that the United States lacks the will or the resolve to carry out our missions that demand sacrifice and demand patience is every bit as dangerous as an imbalance of conventional military power,” he said. “It may well be comforting to some to consider graceful exits from the agonies and, indeed, the ugliness of combat. But the enemy thinks differently.”
In his 2011 memoir, “Known and Unknown,” Mr. Rumsfeld, more than four years out of office, still expressed no regrets over the decision to invade Iraq, which had cost the United States $700 billion and 4,400 American lives, insisting that the removal of President Saddam Hussein had justified the effort. “Ridding the region of Saddam’s brutal regime has created a more stable and secure world,” he wrote.
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He sidestepped the issue of whether the Iraq war had diverted resources from Afghanistan, leading to a Taliban resurgence there. “It was precisely during the toughest period in the Iraq war that Afghanistan, with coalition help, took some of its most promising steps toward a free and better future,” he declared simply.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/30/us/politics/donald-rumsfeld-dead.html
Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld dies at age 88
Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has died at the age of 88, his family said Wednesday.
The big picture: Rumsfeld served as defense secretary under Presidents Gerald Ford and George W. Bush. He led the Department of Defense on 9/11 and at the start of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
What they're saying: “It is with deep sadness that we share the news of the passing of Donald Rumsfeld, an American statesman and devoted husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather," his family said in a statement
"History may remember him for his extraordinary accomplishments over six decades of public service, but for those who knew him best and whose lives were forever changed as a result, we will remember his unwavering love for his wife Joyce, his family and friends, and the integrity he brought to a life dedicated to country.”
https://www.axios.com/former-defense-secretary-donald-rumsfeld-dies-5d4989be-2ae5-41dc-835e-281c8d57e1d8.html
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