August 5, 2006 at 16:28:27

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HILLARY RIGHTFULLY BLASTS RUMSFELD / IT'S TIME TO LEAVE

By Allen L Roland (about the author)     Page 1 of 3 page(s)

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" The secretary has lost credibility with the Congress and with the people ... It's time for Rumsfeld to step down and be replaced by someone who can develop an effective strategy and communicate it effectively to the American people and to the world:" Hillary Rodham Clinton


With Lieberman about ready to crash and burn in Connecticut ~ Hillary Clinton is beginning to realize that the Democratic progressive revolution is for real and it's time to return to her base before she also tanks in 2008.

She took a giant step in that direction with her methodical and rightful scathing review of Rumsfeld's performance as Defense Secretary in yesterdays Senate hearings before a visibly shaken Rumsfeld ~ who suffered the humiliation of being dressed down in front of his two top generals.

Obviously we are on the wrong course in Iraq and I leave it to the center for American Progress to fill in the sordid details ~ including an apparently delusional Donald Rumsfeld.

We have reached the point in Iraq where we are being openly scorned and laughed at by an increasingly empowered insurgency ~ along with a bewildered world community.

It's time to leave.

Allen L Roland


STAYING ON THE WRONG COURSE

by Judd Legum, Faiz Shakir, Nico Pitney
Amanda Terkel and Payson Schwin / American Progress Report / August 4, 2006

Yesterday, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld testified about Iraq before the Senate Armed Services Committee, his first public testimony about the war in six months. One thing became abundantly clear: conditions in Iraq have gone from bad to worse.

Four months ago, Gen. John Abizaid, the commander of American forces in the Middle East, told a Senate committee, "Iraq remains a long way from civil war." Yesterday, Abizaid, who testified with Rumsfeld, said that the "the sectarian violence is probably is as bad as I've seen it" and, unless rampant violence in Baghdad is "stopped," a civil war could be imminent.

Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who also accompanied Rumsfeld, added, "I believe we do have the possibility of that devolving to a civil war."

Rumsfeld, for his part, pretended he had always allowed for the possibility that -- more than three years after the initial invasion -- there would be rampant sectarian violence and more than 130,000 U.S. troops still in Iraq. Rumsfeld told Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY), "I have never painted a rosy picture. I have been very measured in my words, and " you'd have a dickens of a time trying to find instances where I have been excessively optimistic."

Actually, prior to the invasion, Rumsfeld publicly said he "doubt[ed]" the conflict would last "six months." More than 40 months later, we are still bogged down in Iraq and still "staying the course" with a failed strategy.

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