"At that point, awareness of the speech exploded. However, while moderate bloggers saw it merely as Rumsfeld "blurt[ing] out the secret wet-dream fantasy of every warmongering neocon Republican," others found it far more sinister.
Rob Kall, the executive editor of OpEd News, was one of the first to suggest the obvious conclusion. "Call me a conspiracy theorist," he wrote on May 14. "Because this slips too easily off Rumsfeld's reptilian tongue. Too easily because perhaps it's not at all a new idea. Perhaps it is an idea that, for him, for all the propagandist sell-out generals, this is not new, that is actually, already tried and true. One of the oft cited premises of the 9/11 Truth movement is that the attack on the towers was the pearl harbor-like event that the neocons anticipated would be necessary to move the US to embrace the aggressive militaristic tactics manifested in Iraq. Here, we have Rumsfeld casually joking about it?-not a smoking gun, but, perhaps, a clear 'tell' in poker parlance, indicating ready ability to think in these terms."
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