THIS MAN IS NO GOOD !
Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 3:56 am
Donald H. Rumsfeld:
In 1976, a military recruit in New Jersey died and 500 others were infected with a flu that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention diagnosed as "swine flu".
A memo from the Health, Education and Welfare secretary to the head of the Office of Management and Budget noted that "the projections are that this virus will kill one million Americans in 1976."
At Rumsfeld's urging, the Ford administration quickly produced and distributed large numberS of doses of the vaccine.
However, some batches were contaminated and 52 people died while 600 fell ill.
The program was stopped and no one outside of the original outbreak contracted swine flu.
Rumsfeld sat on the board of ABB, a European engineering giant based in Zurich from 1990 to 2001, earning $190,000 a year.
In 2000 this company sold two light water nuclear reactors to North Korea, a country he now regards as part of the "axis of evil" and which has been targeted for regime change by Washington because of its efforts to build nuclear weapons. The reactor deal was part of President Bill Clinton's policy of persuading the North Korean regime to positively engage with the west.
During his bid for the Republican nomination in 1988, Rumsfeld stated that restoring full relations to Iraq was one of his best achievements. Rumsfeld was a founder and active member of the Project for the New American Century, whose goal is to "promote American global leadership" and which in September 2000 proposed to invade Iraq.
He signed the 1998 PNAC Letter sent to President Bill Clinton advocating the use of force in Iraq to "protect our vital interests in the gulf".
Gilead Sciences: Chairman (1997-2001), major stockholder as of March 2006
General Instrument Corporation: Chairman and CEO (1990-93)
G.D. Searle pharmaceutical company: CEO/Chairman/President (1977-1985)
Bechtel Corporation: Was involved in Iraq-Bechtel negotiations in the 1980s on a pipeline project
Gulfstream Aerospace: Former director
Tribune Company: Former director
Metricom, Inc.: Former director
Sears, Roebuck and Co.: Former director
ABB AB: Former director
In 1976, a military recruit in New Jersey died and 500 others were infected with a flu that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention diagnosed as "swine flu".
A memo from the Health, Education and Welfare secretary to the head of the Office of Management and Budget noted that "the projections are that this virus will kill one million Americans in 1976."
At Rumsfeld's urging, the Ford administration quickly produced and distributed large numberS of doses of the vaccine.
However, some batches were contaminated and 52 people died while 600 fell ill.
The program was stopped and no one outside of the original outbreak contracted swine flu.
Rumsfeld sat on the board of ABB, a European engineering giant based in Zurich from 1990 to 2001, earning $190,000 a year.
In 2000 this company sold two light water nuclear reactors to North Korea, a country he now regards as part of the "axis of evil" and which has been targeted for regime change by Washington because of its efforts to build nuclear weapons. The reactor deal was part of President Bill Clinton's policy of persuading the North Korean regime to positively engage with the west.
During his bid for the Republican nomination in 1988, Rumsfeld stated that restoring full relations to Iraq was one of his best achievements. Rumsfeld was a founder and active member of the Project for the New American Century, whose goal is to "promote American global leadership" and which in September 2000 proposed to invade Iraq.
He signed the 1998 PNAC Letter sent to President Bill Clinton advocating the use of force in Iraq to "protect our vital interests in the gulf".
Gilead Sciences: Chairman (1997-2001), major stockholder as of March 2006
General Instrument Corporation: Chairman and CEO (1990-93)
G.D. Searle pharmaceutical company: CEO/Chairman/President (1977-1985)
Bechtel Corporation: Was involved in Iraq-Bechtel negotiations in the 1980s on a pipeline project
Gulfstream Aerospace: Former director
Tribune Company: Former director
Metricom, Inc.: Former director
Sears, Roebuck and Co.: Former director
ABB AB: Former director