Donald Rumsfeld is out as Secretary of Defense. His legacy for failure and bloodshed will rival Mengele, Franco and “Baby Doc” for the killing and suffering they alone wrought upon the people of this earth.
In trying to cut our military down to make it “quicker and faster,” Rumsfeld put us all billions of dollars in the hole for a misbegotten war strategy. He oversaw tremendous loss of life and limb of our soldiers and Iraqi civilians. The blood is dripping from his hands.
United States Military Deaths: 2,839 United States Military Wounded: 19,688 Iraqi Civilian Deaths: 100,000 Iraqi Military Deaths: 30,000 Contractor Deaths: 355 United States Military Suicides: 43 Journalist Deaths: 130
Goodbye dear killer.
We shall always remember the fear in your eyes and the spite in your face when your veracity was questioned.
Farewell old foe. Forgone but never forgotten. Good riddance.
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Hi Nicola!
He’s gone.
What took so long I have no idea.
In 20 years we will learn the real identify of “The Butcher of Baghdad.”
Here’s the Churchill quote Rumsfeld used today during his resignation press conference:
He still doesn’t get it. He’s no Churchill.
Here’s the only Churchill quote I could find on “suffering criticism” and is much less self-serving than the Rumsfeld version:
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/w/winstonchu103863.html
As an english person I find that quite insulting – also rather ironic too after the fuss Mr Bush was making about being misquoted at his press conference.
Hi Nicola!
He may have quoted him precisely but I couldn’t find the exact reference.
It is fascinating Rumsfeld chooses to identify with Churchill on the day he’s shown the door. It seems to prove how out of touch with the harsh reality of the world he is and that’s deadly dangerous for many people when you direct the guns and you set the bombing plans.
Halleluiah!
Amen Mr Boles!
Hi Dawn!
Thanks for the comment! I think things will start to cool down in Iraq now. We’ll get a plan to get out and, I hope, we leave the nation in a state that is not one of an ongoing civil war where a new Saddam will rise to power.
I have a man who can – I will ask him to see if he can source it for us – will give him something to do!
Yay! I love it when you make men do things!

Oh, and I know I have Rumsfeld’s “quote” of Churchill right because I transcribed it live as he spoke it.
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Hmmm… it seems even Rush Limbaugh is running from Rummy. This quote from Limbaugh’s website appears right alongside an image of Rumsfeld:
The hypocrisy of the ultra-conservative mouthpieces is amazing, Dave. They stand for nothing. They play to the lowest and most vicious and most divisive common denominator.
Democrats just don’t have it in them to play that nasty game as the demise of Air American testifies.
I’m sure tomorrow they’ll be back in form bashing Hillary again…
Well said, Dave! I think you ratcheted it down to the core: Lonely, angry people listening to lonely, angry people.