Posted on 09/20/2010 9:14:28 AM PDT by STARWISE
If there was any doubt that Donald Rumsfeld's book would be frank-and-candid narrative of what, in his telling, really happened, here are a few details about what promises to be a tell-all in the tradition of the Washington memoir.
First, see above: The dust jacket depicts a fleece-wearing Rummy at his get-away in Taos, a signal that he's detached from the Beltway and has nothing to lose. Then there is the title, "Known and Unknown," a play on his famous formulation about "known unknowns" and "unknown unknowns."
That's shorthand for suggesting he's going to reveal more than a few new nuggets. But that's all a bit of fun Kremlinology.
Here is some hard evidence:
When he publishes his book next year, the 78-year-old former Defense Secretary, White House Chief of Staff and Illinois congressman is also going to create a concurrent website with a slew of previously undisclosed documents from his decades of government service.
The release of information surrounding the Iraq war, in particular, is plainly an attempt to bolster his standing in history.
"The memoir follows the historical arc of Rumsfeld’s career, from his childhood experience of Pearl Harbor to the aftermath of 9/11," Keith Urbahn, his top aide, tells me.
"This remarkable story will be supported and amplified by the release of thousands of pages of never before seen memos and previously classified documents that put the reader in the moment.
The availability of the documents on a website will let skeptics make their own judgments based on the contemporary information Rumsfeld had at his disposal.”
Urbahn adds: "This book will tell readers things that they didn't know, and it may well unsettle a few people who think the history of certain events has already been written."
And here's a bit of a tease about what is widely seen as one of the most unfortunate parts of Rumsfeld's career:
“The book starts with a scene from Baghdad in December 1983 when Don Rumsfeld met Saddam Hussein. It describes what really happened in that meeting.”
The book will be published in January.
Thanks, Dolly.
A critic is the EASIEST thing to be
“[Osama Bin Laden is] either alive and well or alive and not too well or not alive.”
They should know Beta
Thanks for the ping, STARWISE.
Oh...I miss this man DEARLY!!!!!! God Bless you and your family Sec. Rumsfeld!!!!!!!!! You are on my list of Top 5 to Have Lunch/Dinner With!!!! (always have been!)
Best of Luck with your book sales...I'll post on my FB page too for you!!!
Yep .. this is DEFINITELY “Bush Admin: Perfection Only” HQ, wolfie.
2011 going shape up as good book year this and Dick Cheney book I think coming out in 2011
Those two books I wouldn’t mind reading
BTTT
I just read your post, Here it is: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2667651/posts?page=14#14
“Cheney as well cost us our best ever carrier based Naval Fighter.” OK WHAT “best ever carrier based Naval Fighter” was THAT??!!
The one that sat on the alert catapult when flight ops were secure. The F-14 Tomcat. I know it cost a lot for upkeep but the planes should have been kept and money poured into Avionics and weapons upgrades for it instead.
To give you some idea of how successful they were the tooling as well as the planes were destroyed after the last ones were taken out of service. This was so none of it's parts could be stolen nor the plane ever copied. Of course it means we can't either. As far as carrier based fighter go it was our edge.
As I understand it only one other nation has them and that's Iran. Our mistake for selling them to any M.E. nations to start with.
I agree I thought that you may have referred to the “Abortion” known as the A-12. Tailhook ‘91 KILLED the A-6 and F-14 communities.
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