What If Donald Rumsfeld Had Never Been Born?
by Eric Jaffa December 31, 2004 Donald Rumsfeld Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has blood on his hands. From the shock-and-awe bombing which killed many Iraqi civilians, to the torture at Abu Ghraib (references bottom-of-page.) But since this is the “Friday Fun” article, those incidents won’t be examined here. Instead, we’ll look at a happier world. A world in which Donald Rumsfeld was never born. We visit that better world through the imagination of Maureen Dowd, in her takeoff on the 1946 Jimmy Stewart movie, “It’s a Wonderful Life.” From the New York Times (“A Not So Wonderful Life” by Maureen Dowd, Dec 19, 2004):. EXTERIOR BRIDGE OVER POTOMAC RIVER – NIGHT CLOSE SHOT – Rummy is standing by the railing, staring morosely into the water. The snow is falling hard. Feeling a tap on his shoulder, he wheels around and wrestles an old man with wings into a headlock. OLD MAN: Ouch! Tut, tut. When will you learn that force doesn’t solve everything? RUMMY: Who the dickens are you? OLD MA
