Donald Rumsfeld has broken media silence, giving his first interview since his resignation as Secretary of Defense to an institution behooving a man of his stature: GQ. Rummy assures GQ’s loyal yuppie audience that no, he hasn’t been losing sleep over any of the atrocious things he did while helming the Pentagon. “I am not a person who looks back,” he explains, to which it should be added that judging by his track record, he’s not really a person who looks forward, either.
Rummie then proceeds to diss his former crew. When asked if he misses George W. Bush, the president gets a dismissive “Um, no.” Colin Powell also receives cold-as-ice derision; ‘We’re not close. Never were.” But he doesn’t hate on everybody. Our first cyborg VP, Dick Cheney, is like, totally chill in his book. He still “sees” him, which is Rummie-speak for “Golfs using the eyeballs of black site prisoners instead of golf balls.”
Rumsfeld’s comments aren’t exactly incendiary. The crotchety old fuck-up goes on to give some half-hearted praise to the president, as if aware he showed too much of his hand earlier in the interview: the usual “history will vindicate him” balderdash. Yeah, and we’ll have turned a corner in Iraq in six months.
