his machinations and his palindromes

the washington post has an interesting article out today about donald rumsfeld's 'snowflakes.' the memos that he penned after meetings (or after the media wrote something that he didn't care for) were often referred to as 'snowflakes.' how quaint. here are a few gems:

• after retired generals came out against rumsfeld this snowflake fell from the sky; "Talk about Somalia, the Phillippines, etc. Make the American people realize they are surrounded in the world by violent extremists..."
  
  
• the post couldn't help but notice rumsfeld's penchant for the term 'bumper sticker.' apparently rumsfeld thinks that ideas, in order to strike a cord and be sold to the stupid americans, must work on a bumper sticker. in may 2004 a rumsfeld snowflake advised his aides "to test what the results could be" if the administration 'renamed' the 'war on terrorism. yeah, those 'war on terrorism' bumper stickers didn't sell really well (and how ironic that bumper stickers require OIL to be produced and transported into stores).
  
  
• muslims, rumsfeld wrote, are detached "from the reality of the work, effort and investment that leads to wealth for the rest of the world. Too often Muslims are against physical labor, so they bring in Koreans and Pakistanis while their young people remain unemployed..."

rumsfeld wouldn't give the post a comment about his 'snowflakes.' i don't find this suprising at all. i don't think a comment is even necessary when his broad generalizations (i.e. racism - what else do you call it when someone makes a negative generalization about an entire group of people?), his position, his ego, his hypocrisy, and his spin already tell us so much about him.