Wed
Apr
29
Rumsfeld: “I stand for 8-10 hours a day. Why is standing limited to 4 hours?”
via Murray Waas
It was a historic moment. On Dec. 2, 2002, then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld signed a memorandum authorizing interrogation techniques against detainees at Guantanamo that the current President of the United States, Barack Obama, has described as “torture.”
In a handwritten notation at the bottom of the memo, apparently believing that the U.S. government was being too lenient and humane to the detainees,Rumsfeld scrawled, “I stand for 8-10 hours a day. Why is standing limited to 4 hours?”
If Rumsfeld had any thoughts at that historic moment, thus far that one is the only one recorded for history.
Corrction - he thinks he stands for 8-10 hrs a day. In truth, like most of us he gets the chance to move around, sit down for a few moments, lean against object etc.
Arsehole!
