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I don't have any political patron saints. I think it is wrong to disarm. I think Bush is wrong on this and also on easing restrictions on Cuba. Please don't jump to conclusions. I said I thought Cheney and Rummy gave good advice. If Bush is too foolish to take it, then we are doomed.

Sorry for jumping down your throat, but it appeared that you were ignoring the thrust of the policy critique, and absolving the source based on the truly fine appointments he has made to the national security posts (with the exception of Tom Ridge and Norman Manetta, and his failure to clean house at CIA and DOE). I am just worried that these good appointments of Rummy and Wolfowitz et al., were primarily to put us off our guard, and use their good reputations to silence opposition on the right. Recall the first couple defense budgets pre 9-11? And even now it sucks. Poor Donald Rumsfeld. He plays it straight, and then he has to either resign or make the best of a budget given to him out of ulterior motives. So far he hasn't resigned. But I am wondering just how close he got after being ordered to cease undermining the unilateral disarmament plot of GWB.