Give Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz the boot

Boston Globe ^ | 07.11.03 | H.D.S. Greenway

[Enemy Of The State]

ECRETARY OF Defense Donald Rumsfeld stands at the head of the table. He has outmaneuvered all his Cabinet rivals and taken over many of the functions that used to belong to the State Department, the CIA, even the Justice Department. He dominates the Cabinet as no secretary of defense has done since Robert McNamara. He is also articulate, refreshingly if undiplomatically blunt, with a no-nonsense approach that is at times both witty and exactly to the point.

[DB]

If Rumsfeld ran for President I'd vote for him.

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[Gringo1]

Ditto.

[Toddsterpatriot]

It is not as if the Pentagon was not warned. In the lead-up to war, there were many voices from experienced experts and think tanks warning that the United States would need a substantial military police force to go in right after the troops.

Were these the same experts who said we'd lose 5,000 soldiers to the battle-hardened Iraqi Army?

[MEG33]

The very ones .

[Toddsterpatriot]

Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz presided over what one diplomat calls a ''colossal miscalculation'' that may have more impact on this country than did the miscalculation at the Bay of Pigs four decades ago.

This is a funny one. Comparing one of the greatest modern military victories to Kennedy's failure to oust Castro by withholding air support.

Let's see, total victory on the one hand vs. total failure on the other. Yeah, these are comparable.

[Tacis]

This weasel forgaot to add that Rummy & Paul made the ultra-left wing media and it's America-hating hacks look bad when the US military refused to play "quagmire."

What is it with these neocommies and this tactic of describing a triviality and then claiming, that as a result of that triviality, a Republican or good guy should resign. They got away with it with Packwood. No dem crook or extremist-liberal will ever resign when getting caught doing anything, much less anything trivial.

[BullDog108]

Where's the BARF Alert?

[beckett]

Goes to show you how delusional the left is these days. They actually think a Secretary of Defense with two victories in war under his belt is a candidate to be fired.

[Ditter]

This guy should get his head out of his a.. & look around. Compare the Iraq War II to the Bay of Pigs?

[ishmac]

Although American soldiers quickly secured the Oil Ministry in Baghdad, nothing was done to protect museums, hospitals, vital offices.

Good grief, those dorks on the left are still sniping about the the blasted museum (non)looting. Having said that, Rush Limbaugh's dictum is true: in politics, appearance is reality. The Bushies are are beginning to appear to have a problem, and thus they need to fix it.

[Pan_Yan]

Ever notice when liberals want to make a Conservative look like a failure they have to compare hime to a liberal? (ie McNamara)

And once again those fifteen missing museum pieces will haunt Rummy to his grave.

[SierraWasp]

Give the Boston Globe (Blob) the BOOT!!!

[You Dirty Rats]

We do have to admit that after the failure of the Bay of Pigs, the Boston Globe called for the firing of the cabinet officers involved. Kennedy responded by firing half his cabinet. It's only fair to expect the Globe will be just as tough on the Bush Adminiatration as they were on the Kennedy Administration.

Maybe I shouldn't have eaten those mushrooms we picked yesterday.

[jimtorr]

t is said that after the Bay of Pigs, President Kennedy told Richard Bissell, the CIA man in charge of the project, that under a parliamentary system it would be he, Kennedy, who would have to resign. But since it was not, it was Bissell who would have to go.

Maybe Kennedy should have resigned. He told Bissell to go ahead and invade, and then paniced and refused to support the invasion force.

[Enemy Of The State]

"If Rumsfeld ran for President I'd vote for him."

You and me both!
(although, something tells me that we would be going to war a lot more frequently. :) )

[soozla]

ME TOO!! Refreshing to see his gloves come off when he is faced with the prevailing sycophants and idiots in the press today. I admire him because he, like me, is irritated that common sense seems to be totally lost on alot of (strike that...MOST) of the morons calling themselves reporters.

Kind of like my kindly grandfather, who would patiently tolerate my childhood inquiries, trust that I was smart enough to "know better" and then give me a "what-for" when he figured I had plenty enough time to understand it on my own.
Rummy puts up with NO BS......and he didn't get to where he is today by putting up with any either.

[verity]

What a bunch of .............

[liberallarry]

They were warned...by real experts...that Iraq would probably be ungovernable. It's the article's author who misunderstands the situation.

We took a big risk because we felt we had to - the status quo in the Middle East was becoming increasingly dangerous and unstable. The author is right that the war in Iraq was only a campaign. We're going to be fighting in that region for years.

The alternative would be more 911s.