Ad depicts Rumsfeld, Saddam - Anti-American Berkely Group Idiot Alert!

Oakland Tribune ^ | 5/15/03

[areafiftyone]

A Berkeley-based peace group intends to place advertisements depicting U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld shaking hands with Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in mass transit systems from coast to coast. The photo is real -- it was taken Dec. 20, 1983, when Rumsfeld, then a special envoy for the Reagan administration, visited Saddam to discuss U.S. support for Iraq in its war with Iran. California Peace Action and its sister Peace Education Fund incorporated the photo into an ad emblazoned with the words, "Who are we arming now?

"U.S. troops die for the failures of policy makers," the ad says. "The war in Iraq marked the seventh consecutive time that American troops have been sent into combat against a regime the U.S. had previously backed. We aided both Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. While American soldiers and innocent civilians paid the price, policy makers avoided accountability."

The ads say elected officials have betrayed America's core values of human rights and democracy, and must stop its current arms sales to dictatorships and other nations that abuse their citizens' human rights.

California Peace Action Executive Director Peter Ferenbach said Monday that his group had collected about $41,000 since launching its fund-raising appeal five days earlier. It will cost about $55,000 to place the ads in BART stations and in the mass transit systems of Washington, D.C., Boston and Chicago, as well as more detailed full-page ads in the New York Times and Los Angeles Times.

Ferenbach said the ads are meant to show that the war against Iraq is "symptomatic of a larger problem," and that "we don't seem to be learning from this lesson at all."

It is understandable if people are disturbed by the photo, he said. "They should find it upsetting. On some level, there's the old adage that 'the truth hurts.'"

[My2Cents]

Do they plan on running the photo taken last year of Carter shaking hands with Castro?

[Mr.Atos]

The follow-up should show Sen. McDermont (D-Washington) shaking hands with Hussein on the eve of war.

[onedoug]

...And the deals Roosevelt struck with Stalin?...

[areafiftyone]

I wonder if they will be posting this picture!

[Lunatic Fringe]

[Mister Baredog]

A perfect waste of money, I sure RUMMY will be really flattered by all the attention. This is one guy they will never intimidate.

[Mr.Atos]

Great photos. Here's one more...

"I believe that Germany should not be destroyed, but rather should be rebuilt as a buffer against the real danger, which is Russia and it's Bolshevism." - G.S. Patton

Rummy as Patton before him, new who the REAL enemy was. Sometimes pictures tell a thousand lies.

[Lunatic Fringe]

Broken picture link...

[Paul Atreides]

Don't forget the Arkansas double-wide...

[Mr.Atos]

Broken picture link... apologies. The image shows Patton side by side saluting with a Russian General. The picture clearly does not convey Patton's thoughts concerning the Russians, nor the fact that he would have fought them side-by side with the Nazi's and then turned and defeated the Nazi's. A good general does what is momentarily prudent in order to achieve that which ultimately desired.

[My2Cents]

Excellent montage. Particularly like the headline juxtaposition.

[Timesink]

"Who are we arming now?"

Not California.

You leftist pigs may want to keep that in mind.

[My2Cents]

[My2Cents]

Hillary appears to really be into that moment...Hillary puts the "fat" in "Mrs. Arafat."

[sauropod]

Rev up those Java engines...

[sauropod]

Do you have a large pic of "the kiss?"

[Eva]

Don't worry about it, most of the people who ride public transportation won't recognize a picture of Rumsfeld.

[CyberAnt]

Seems to me I recall several of x42 shaking hands with China, Russia, etc.

[NFOShekky]

LOL!!! God in heaven, what the hell is this a picture of????