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Donald Rumsfeld is dead but I'm not crying.
I remember and mourn the thousands of American service members killed in the war Rumsfeld started in Iraq, and the tens of thousands grievously wounded, physically and psychologically scarred for life.
I proudly salute the hundreds of Maui residents who gathered with me and others across the country to protest the planned invasion of Iraq before it was launched.
Not that Rumsfeld and his team of totally misguided war zealots paid any attention. They were too busy ginning up lies to justify the invasion, every one of which was ultimately exposed as false. Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction and posed zero threat to the United States.
Historians rank our invasion of Iraq as one of the greatest blunders in our history, and Rumsfeld was the architect. The world is not better off. We got nothing out of it. America is not one bit safer after all the deaths and horrors. To this day and into the future, thousands of veterans are riddled with cancer after being exposed to our military's toxic burn pits in Iraq. Hundreds more, perhaps thousands, have already died after developing cancer from their exposure.
All because of Donald Rumsfeld and others in the George Bush administration, including Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Bush himself and others who lied repeatedly about Saddam Hussein's nonexistent weapons of mass destruction. They continue to lie to this day trying to justify their colossal misjudgment and unspeakable betrayal of the American people.
Jerome Kellner
Kahului