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Donald Rumsfeld’s “snowflakes” (memos in which he sprinkled his brilliant musings to his staff) include references to Muslims as people who avoid “physical labor,” and advice to his minions that they “keep elevating the threat,” and “link Iraq to Iran.” Another “snowflake,” (he produced 20 to 60 each day) urged military analysts to “talk about Somalia, the Philippines, etc. Make the American people realize they are surrounded in the world by violent extremists.” A former Rumsfeld aide complains that journalists are now seizing on only a few “snowflakes” in an avalanche of more than 20,000. (Washington Post)

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