Rumsfeld: Looting is transition to freedom

[bluedigger]

"The task we've got ahead of us now is an awkward one ... It's untidy. And freedom's untidy. And free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things. They're also free to live their lives and do wonderful things. And that's what's going to happen here," Rumsfeld said.

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"While no one condones looting, on the other hand, one can understand the pent-up feelings that may result from decades of repression and people who have had members of their family killed by that regime, for them to be taking their feelings out on that regime," he said. "And I don't think there's anyone in any of those pictures ... (who wouldn't) accept it as part of the price of getting from a repressed regime to freedom."

https://www.upi.com/Defense-News/2003/04/11/Rumsfeld-Looting-is-transition-to-freedom/63821050097983/?fbclid=IwAR3fJGn9SbEakS1UDxIvuX5CW3ugzp9bI3mZi8-DUGPAdxTn3jr2NnO-IjU

[delisen]

1. Excellent on the hypocrisy

[UpInArms]

2. Democracy is messy

You have to break eggs to make an omelette ...

Freedom fighters are good (Raygun on osama bin laden)

[sfstaxprep]

3. WAR CRIMINAL Says What??? nt

[Pacifist Patriot]

4. And I bet he feels exactly the same way 17 years later when the looting is on home soil.

[gratuitous]

6. Well, he didn't mean HERE

Jeez, it's okay and totally to be expected in those foreign hell holes, but not here in the land of the free and home of the brave! I'm sure if this was to come up on a certain media outlet, we'd be treated to all the different ways it's okay there but terrible here.

[malaise]

5. Great post

Rec

[rurallib]

7. Right is hoisted on its own petard!

[Buckeye_Democrat]

8. Excellent!

Most Americans also didn't act mortified about the hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqi civilians. And I mean from ANY demographic group here, in general. It's just something that happened on the other side of the world to people we didn't know.