Saturday, April 15, 2006

And another one bites the dust

Once upon a time not so very long ago, George W. Bush, President of the United States of America, issued an endorsement of the job performance of one of his employees: "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job." 'Nuf said.

Dubya has given a strong endorsement to his Secretary of Defense and, at this point in time, a Bush endorsement is career suicide. So The Donald, chief architect of the Iraq war and proponent of torture is going to be the sacrificial lamb offered up to the slaughter in the sacrifice to be given to the gods to try to stave off the inevitable downfall of the Republican Party in the November elections.

This article in the Boston Globe pretty much sums it up:

GLOBE EDITORIAL
Revolt against Rumsfeld
April 15, 2006
PRESIDENT BUSH made a serious mistake yesterday when, responding to devastating criticisms of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld by retired military generals, he asserted that Rumsfeld's performance is ''exactly what is needed at this critical period."

The officers speaking out against Rumsfeld deserve serious consideration. They are making a judgment that career military officers are almost always reluctant to make, since they respect the principle of civilian authority over the nation's armed forces. This is an essential principle, one that accounts for the stability of the American political system and distinguishes it from countries in which elected civilian governments are intermittently supplanted by military regimes.
To go public as they have, these generals had to conclude that the harm done to the national interest and military institutions by Rumsfeld has become so great that they had to make a rare exception to their code of silent deferral to the Pentagon's civilian chiefs.
Instead of rushing to defend Rumsfeld as if the generals' public criticism is a purely political problem to be finessed with a routine show of presidential resoluteness, Bush ought to reflect long and hard on what they have said.
Major General John Batiste, who commanded the Army's First Infantry Division in Iraq until last November and who turned down a promotion and the role of the number two military officer in Iraq because he did not want to serve under Rumsfeld, said on NBC's ''Today Show" yesterday: ''We went to war with a flawed plan that didn't account for the hard work to build the peace after we took down the regime. We also served under a secretary of defense who didn't understand leadership, who was abusive, who was arrogant, and who didn't build a strong team."

And to offer a little more entertainment, I give you 'Bushisms'.
Countess Bedelia 4/15/2006 10:45:00 PM

2 Comments:

HA HA HA....It reminds me of Nixon when he said he was behind Agnew "1000 %" No one could figure out if that meant he was ten times behind him 100%, but he was gone so fast it didn't matter.
I figure it means that if Rumsfeld stops short, Bush will give him a rim job. Maybe that is why Cheney always has that grim smile on his face...LOL!

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