Rough Justice; prowling Baghdad with a sidearm and a defective bulletproof-vest

By Mike Whitney

On Monday, an editorial is scheduled to appear in the "Army Times" which will call for Donald Rumsfeld’s resignation as Secretary of Defense. The article will run simultaneously in the "Air Force Times", "Navy Times" and "Marine Corps Times" and will be available to every active member in the United States Military. The editorial "Time for Rumsfeld to go" provides a brief summary of Rumsfeld’s role in engineering the greatest strategic defeat in American history. It says that the "rosy reassurances" made by the administration (like "Mission accomplished" and that the insurgency "was in its last throes") were in stark contrast to the military’s "misgivings about the war’s planning, execution and prospects for success". Note: The "Army Times" has traditionally been about as critical of the government as their Soviet equivalent, Pravda. (...) The war has released the genie of mass-destruction and there’s a strong probability that the fighting won’t be contained within Iraq. Oddly enough, this has always been the dark-vision of the neoconservatives who espoused "creative destruction" as the organizing-principle of foreign policy. Now that their dream appears to be materializing, they’re all in full-retreat trying to distance themselves from the president. Cowards. Only Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld are left to take the blame...

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