Terror! Terror! Rah, Rah, Rah!

Last week, the Pentagon released a massive document dump of more than 8000 E-mails, memos and other files related to the "military analyst" propaganda scandal. While the mainstream media continues to ignore this wholesale (and very possibly illegal) scheme, bloggers across the country have been combing through the data looking for nuggets of gold. And they just struck a pure 24-karat one.

On December 12, 2006, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was about a week away from stepping down when he met with his squad of "message force multipliers" for a farewell lunch. During the lunch, Rumsfeld spoke on how the country had not suffered additional terrorist attacks since 2001 - and how the American people deserved another attack to punish them for voting Democrats into control of Congress the previous month:

We haven't had an attack in five years. The perception of the threat is so low in this society that it's not surprising that the behavior pattern reflects a low threat assessment. The same thing's in Europe, there's a low threat perception. The correction for that, I suppose, is an attack. And when that happens, then everyone gets energized for another [inaudible] and it's a shame we don't have the maturity to recognize the seriousness of the threats.

If anyone needed any additional evidence that Rumsfeld is a grade-A sociopath, this is it. The notion that public rejection of endless official fear-mongering shows a lack of "maturity" and requires the "correction" of more terror and death is simply obscene.

How many more horrors will be found in the documents?