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Plot: Former United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, discusses his career in Washington D.C. from his days as a congressman in the early 1960s to planning the invasion of Iraq in 2003
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	7.0/10 Votes: 4,161
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An Atypical Documentary Whose Amoral Subject Speaks for Himself
There’s something maddeningly chaotic about Donald Rumsfeld’s logic in terms of US international policy. When he was in press conferences during the Iraq War under W Bush, Rumsfeld’s answers to tough questions often rang of the so-called “double-speak”, a term which is associated with but not explicitly used in George Orwell’s “1984”. He would respond with other questions or make unfunny jokes. He would use strange metaphors. Rarely did he simply answer direct questions. Errol Morris’ documentary about Rumsfeld is strangely similar. He has Rumsfeld do most of the talking, and what comes out of the former Defense Secretary’s mouth is a barrage of inconsistencies, untruths, and illogical conclusions. In short, Rumsfeld’s whole way of thinking is a jumbled incomprehensible mess. And yet, he was one of the most powerful people in the W Bush administration during the first decade of the 21st century. You could argue W Bush had flawed judgment, Dick Cheney was immoral, but Rumsfeld is in his own realm. As Morris said in an interview, he was one of the most “self-deceiving” people he had ever interviewed.

The format of the documentary is one of the strangest you’ll ever see in a film of this type. The subject himself is the narrator. He narrates and then comments on the different subjects covered in the documentary. He occasionally answers questions posed by Errol Morris who can be heard in the background. One of the former Defense Secretary’s most interesting phrases is “the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence”, a phrase coined by Carl Sagan when referring to the unknown realms of outer space. Rumsfeld is famous for composing 1000’s of email memos, and recurring throughout the memos are his definitions of particular words and terms which are displayed on-screen. The film traces his childhood, his early years in politics under President Nixon and briefly under Gerald Ford. He was an adviser for Governor Reagan and later for President Reagan and George Bush Senior. Most of the documentary concerns the Iraq War and his tenure as Defense Secretary under George W Bush.

One example which highlights Rumsfeld own self-deception and denial is when Morris asks about the public perception concerning Saddam Hussein after the 9/11 attacks. Rumsfeld in the documentary claims people knew that Hussein and Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. The documentary then cuts to a Rumsfeld press conference clip of 2003 in which a reporter quotes Saddam Hussein: “I would like to tell you directly we have no relationship with Al Queada.” Rumsfeld’s reply: “And Abraham Lincoln was short.” The reporter than asks Rumsfeld to respond to Hussein’s statement and the Secretary of Defense simply says that Hussein “rarely tells the truth”. The implication is clear: Rumsfeld wants the public to believe that Hussein and Iraq contributed to 9/11. If you read between the lines, and realize what is unsaid rather than said, Rumsfeld never actually states that Hussein is lying about having a relationship with Al-Queada. He makes the Lincoln analogy joke and he says that Hussein has a pattern of lying, but never once did Rumsfeld himself directly accuse Hussein of lying about having a relationship Al-Quaeda. This is the kind of double-talk, doublespeak which is how Rumsfeld’s reasoning seems to work.

People have criticized the documentary as raising many more questions than it answers. This may be the point of the film. Rumsfeld comes off, at best, as a completely self-deceived person whose rationalities have no logic, and at worst an amoral international leader who got us into an unjust war. His logic, we “lacked imagination” to see the Japanese coming when they attacked Pearl Harbor and thereby justifies the War in Iraq. As Morris points out in an interview, if we can imagine our enemies doing anything in the future, then we can rationalize military operations for almost any reason at any time.

Being smart is not the same as being right
I think the simple display of History is enough. No need to Mansplain , no need for a word warrior here. Look Rumsfield in the eye and accept what you see. The lingering thought I have , as a result of this documentary, is why do people who are unqualified for the job delight in their mere presence instead of what they have done. Now if you don’t mind, I’m off to get a Covid vaccine.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 43 min (103 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Documentary, Biography, History
Director Errol Morris
Writer Errol Morris
Actors Donald Rumsfeld, Errol Morris
Country United States
Awards 2 wins & 9 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Sony ColorWorks, Culver City (CA), USA (digital intermediate) (as ColorWorks)
Film Length N/A
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