Last night Keith Olbermann of MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann delivered a masterful retort to Donald Rumsfeld’s diatribe against the vast majority of Americans who do not agree with this administration’s pursuit of war.

A transcript of his remarks is available at Crooks and Liars. See Keith Olbermann Delivers One Hell of a Commentary on Rumsfeld where in part he says:

Sadly, we have no Winston Churchills evident among us this evening. We have only Donald Rumsfelds, demonizing disagreement, the way Neville Chamberlain demonized Winston Churchill.

History – and 163 million pounds of Luftwaffe bombs over England – had taught us that all Mr. Chamberlain had was his certainty – and his own confusion. A confusion that suggested that the office can not only make the man, but that the office can also make the facts.

You can also view his comments in a better format at TMP Café in Olberman Our New Murrow.

What shocked me about Rumsfeld’s speech was the following (from a transcript of his remarks at Stars and Stripes):

And in every army, there are occasional bad actors, the ones who dominate the headlines today, who don’t live up to the standards of the oath and of our country. But you also know that they are a very, very small percentage of the literally hundreds of thousands of honorable men and women in all theaters in this struggle who are serving our country with humanity, with decency, with professionalism, and with courage in the face of continuous provocation.

And that is important in any long struggle or long war, where any kind of moral or intellectual confusion about who and what is right or wrong, can weaken the ability of free societies to persevere.

So Mr. Rumsfeld is stating that former military leaders and servicepeople who have come out against this war are traitors to their oath and to their country? Wow!!! I wonder what he thinks of his boss when he uses the Constitution as toilet paper.

Mr. Rumsfeld then he goes on to call the rest of us morally and intellectually confused? Cool, because if we were we wouldn’t see, nor would we care about, the loss of our freedoms and the high cost of our misadventures.

WSJV in Bush Sounds Off Against War Critics reports that President Bush’s speech in front of the American Legion’s national convention included the following:

The president said years of pursuing stability in the Middle East was proven a mirage after Sept. 11, 2001. Now, only a nation that commits itself to freedom can help itself and the rest of the world to defeat terror.

I take it that means that those who have pursued peace are idiots and that peace can only be obtained at the end of a gun?

Who knew? Now that I am aware of my moral and intellectual ineptitude, as well as the fact that I am an idiot, I can go out and buy some guns and give peace a chance.

For my part I will pray that our dear Lord grant the light of wisdom to our leaders. I will pray that their moral and intellectual darkness be eliminated, and that they see the truth. I will pray that they cease calling evil good and good evil and that they see that war is not peace.

God have mercy on us all.