Wow, this article from the Daily Beast really cuts deep. Donald Rumsfeld died today, and this is what they had to say about him. And it's true that an awful lot of men, women, children died by his hand. And many thousands of them were Americans. The wars that he prosecuted in Afghanistan and Iraq were unnecessary, unjustified, and entirely avoidable. And they were based on lies; the lies about 9/11 and more. For us, they were wars of choice. We had to cross the ocean to start them. And when it turned out that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction, there was no, "Oh no, what have I done?" out of Rumsfeld.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-rumsfeld-killer-of-400000-people-dies-peacefully?ref=home?ref=homeAnd it's not just a leftist publication like the Daily Beast that is remembering Rumsfeld that way. The Business Insider titled their remembrance of him as
Donald Rumsfeld's legacy is defined by the disastrous Iraq War and America's disgraceful use of torture
There are plenty of similar headlines, but here is just one more:
We Have A New Known-Known. Convicted War Criminal Donald Rumsfeld Is Dead At 88.
These authors are being bold and brave, but not bolder or braver than we were in 2018 when we made MY STRETCH OF TEXAS GROUND. Everything that the film says about the 9/11 wars is true and understated. I'll give you an example. At one point, Sheriff Joe Haladin points out that in Afghanistan, we bombed a wedding party, trying to kill the Taliban, and we killed children. In reality, at the time he said that, we had bombed 8 wedding parties in Afghanistan trying to kill the Taliban. But, we didn't refer to 8 in the film; we just referred to 1. And that's because I thought it would be too difficult for viewers to accept that we did it 8 times, apologizing for killing innocents between each one. We went on to bomb a 9th wedding party in Afghanistan.
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