Op-Ed in today’s Washington Post:
Subjecting the newly declassified White House “National Strategy for Victory in Iraq” to a cynically inspired computer search, I find that the name “Donald Rumsfeld” is missing from the document’s 35 pages. A reasonable person would be confounded by this. How can we have “Victory in Iraq” if the man in command has already brought us defeat?
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Yet the man who has had prime responsibility for Iraq, for planning for the war, waging it and then occupying the country, remains precisely what he has been all this time — the head of the American military, the secretary of defense, the very honorable (but not very capable) Donald Rumsfeld. His mistakes, miscalculations and arrogant dismissal of dissent have cost American (and Iraqi) lives and prolonged the conflict
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The guy who should pay for the debacle of Iraq is George Bush. Unfortunately, the American people reelected him, and that, as they say, is that. But Rumsfeld serves at the pleasure of the president….