Donald Rumsfeld, ancien secrétaire d'Etat à la Défense sous George W. Bush, est décédé à 88 ans

Par Andrew Mitrovica

Un minimum de décence impose de ne pas blanchir l'héritage répugnant de Rumsfeld.

Donald Rumsfeld était un criminel sous les traits d'un banal bureaucrate banal, plus ou moins compétent, en costume-cravate bien taillé.

Si l'on fait abstraction du reste, c'est l'épitaphe qui m'est immédiatement venue à l'esprit lorsque j'ai appris son décès hier.

C'est aussi, je pense, le

Ramona Wadi

Accolades may continue to pour in for Rumsfeld, but history will continue to judge the ravages of U.S. imperialist violence.

Fellow U.S. war criminals have eulogized the former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld upon news of his death. "A faithful steward of our armed forces," former U.S. President George W Bush declared. "A period that brought unprecedented challenges to our country and to our military also brought out the best qualities in Secretary Rumsfeld." Tell that to the tortured, executed and displaced Iraqis tortured upon Rumsfeld's orders, in line with the "War on Terror" agenda post September 11.

By Andrew COCKBURN

When Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld boasted, as he did frequently, of his unrelenting focus on the war on terror, his audience would have been startled, maybe even shocked, to discover the activities that Rumsfeld found it necessary to supervise in minute detail. Close command and control of far away events from the Pentagon were not limited to the targeting of bombs and missiles.