Fire Rumsfeld! No! Fire Rumsfeld! OK!
Allow me to chime in on this whole Rumsfeld thing, if you don’t mind.
For years many people — democrats, independents, hippies, activists, but never republicans — have been calling for Rumsfeld to be fired. He did a decent job with the invasion of Iraq, but the postwar has gone terribly, horribly wrong. And that’s his fault. And people, prominant people, have been proclaiming loudly that he needs to be let go. And Bush has ignored those cries. Even as recently as a few weeks ago, Bush insisted that Rumsfeld would be staying around for the forseeable future.
And then comes the question from a reporter, via a soldier, in a highly publicized press conference. And now it’s all over the news. And McCain says he has no confidence. And Lott says he has no confidence. Never mind that the issue of our troops not having enough armor has been around for years. All of a sudden it’s a big deal. And now that prominant republicans are saying something about it, you know what’s gonna happen? Rumsfeld is going to resign.
And you know what’s going to happen next? People will start talking about how Rumsfeld resigning was Bush’s decision. He’s a strong Commander-In-Chief and he makes tough decisions. He’s resolute. He doesn’t make mistakes.
And people will forget that Rumsfeld has been screwing up for years. That many, many, many people have been saying so the entire time. And that Bush kept him around, expressing confidence in him the entire time.
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