NYTimes says: Donald Rumsfeld Should Go

[kentuck]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/07/opinion/07FRI1.html

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here was a moment about a year ago, in the days of "Mission Accomplished," when Donald Rumsfeld looked like a brilliant tactician. American troops — the lean, mean fighting machine Mr. Rumsfeld assembled — swept into Baghdad with a speed that surprised even the most optimistic hawks. It was crystal clear that the Defense Department, not State and certainly not the United Nations, would control the start of nation-building. Mr. Rumsfeld, with his steely grin and tell-it-like-it-is press conferences, was the closest thing to a rock star the Bush cabinet would ever see.

That was then.

It is time now for Mr. Rumsfeld to go, and not only because he bears personal responsibility for the scandal of Abu Ghraib. That would certainly have been enough. The United States has been humiliated to a point where government officials could not release this year's international human rights report this week for fear of being scoffed at by the rest of the world. The reputation of its brave soldiers has been tarred, and the job of its diplomats made immeasurably harder because members of the American military tortured and humiliated Arab prisoners in ways guaranteed to inflame Muslim hearts everywhere. And this abuse was not an isolated event, as we know now and as Mr. Rumsfeld should have known, given the flood of complaints and reports directed to his office over the last year.
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[Jacobin]

1. NYSlime doesn't like the way its little adventure is going?

Awwwwwwww. After cheerleading so for war, now they want to dump their vaunted warmonger for a kinder, gentler warmonger.

Fucking fools.

[cliss]

2. How quickly they turn, eh Jacobin?

Well, they can smell blood in the water. Meanwhile, Rumsfeld is packing up his things into a cardboard box in his office. He's wondering is he can support himself as a poet.

Seriously though, this man never needed this job. His personal net worth was over $156 million dollars. He could have called it good and kicked back to enjoy the millions he looted from his defense contracts.

I love the irony in that statement, "the Defense Department would control the start of nation-building". I never thought about that before. Maybe that's like asking the Employment Department to specialize in immunology?