Pipe Down, Rummy
What the hell is Rumsfeld's major malfunction? Honestly, I don't care if/when the U.S. leaves Iraq. That's not the issue. What I care about is achieving lasting peace in Iraq, turning Iraq into a strong ally and not an enemy of America, and not running Iraq and the US military into the ground. My problem isn't with war, per se; it's with the dimwits turning the whole Mideast into a disaster area worse than it's been for a thousand years!TWO REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATIONS ago, the mantra of conservatives was "Let Reagan be Reagan." Apparently President Bush has decided to let Rumsfeld be Rumsfeld — even when Bush himself is no longer the Bush who taunted Iraqi insurgents with "Bring 'em on!" and posed in front of a banner proclaiming "Mission Accomplished."
In a cranky speech Tuesday to an American Legion audience, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld compared critics of U.S. policy in Iraq to those who sought to appease Hitler...
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- August 31, 2006
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