{"id":12438,"date":"2014-03-26T01:24:19","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T08:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=12438"},"modified":"2014-03-26T01:24:19","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T08:24:19","slug":"republicans-on-parade3262014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/26\/republicans-on-parade3262014\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans on Parade&ndash;3\/26\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"RepublicansOnParade3\" style=\"float: none; margin-left: auto; display: block; margin-right: auto\" alt=\"RepublicansOnParade3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/RepublicansOnParade32.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here is the forty-fourth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s honoree is former Defense Secretary, and extreme Neocon, Donald Rumsfeld. He is so honored for appearing on the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, <em>Faux Noise<\/em>, and having the audacity to accuse Barack Obama of incompetence, using the insulting Republican meme of comparing him to an ape.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"rumsfeld_saddam\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"rumsfeld_saddam\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/rumsfeld_saddam.jpg\" width=\"360\" align=\"left\" height=\"272\" \/>Former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Monday attacked the Obama administration for failing to secure a status of forces agreement with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rumsfeld, speaking on Fox News, said even a &quot;trained ape&quot; could do better.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&quot;A trained ape could get a status of forces agreement,&quot; Rumsfeld said. &quot;It does not take a genius. And we have so mismanaged that relationship.&quot;\u2026 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post-politics\/wp\/2014\/03\/25\/rumseld-bashes-obama-on-afghanistan-says-a-trained-ape-could-do-better\/\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The included video was not embeddable, but I found it elsewhere. <\/font><font color=\"#ff0000\"><strong>Barf Bag Alert!!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iwyuoLqp3U8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The reason the Obama Administration has trouble with Karzai, and the Bush Reich didn&#8217;t is that Bush appointed Karzai to be a puppet dictator over Afghans, facilitate US corporate energy imperialism, and grow obscenely rich through corruption. Obama put the kibosh on that, so of course Karzai, a former UnoCal (now a subsidiary of Chevron) employee, rebelled against the Obama\u2019s insistence that US funds benefit the ware effort and the Afghan people, not Karzai\u2019s offshore bank accounts.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Rumsfeld, the Republican who set up the deal for Saddam Hussein to have Chemical WMD, and who helped lie our nation&#160; into the failed Bush War for Oil and Conquest in Iraq, is a Republican hypocrite to insult Obama&#8217;s handling of Karzai, especially in such a vile manner.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the forty-fourth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s honoree is former Defense Secretary, and extreme Neocon, Donald Rumsfeld. He is so honored for appearing on the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise, and having the audacity to accuse Barack Obama of <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/26\/republicans-on-parade3262014\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}