OT: Army Times editorial calls for Rumsfeld to be sacked !

One rosy reassurance after another has been handed down by President Bush, Vice
President Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld: ?mission accomplished,?
the insurgency is ?in its last throes,? and ?back off,? we know what we?re
doing, are a few choice examples.

Military leaders generally toed the line, although a few retired generals
eventually spoke out from the safety of the sidelines, inciting criticism
equally from anti-war types, who thought they should have spoken out while still
in uniform, and pro-war foes, who thought the generals should have kept their
critiques behind closed doors.

Now, however, a new chorus of criticism is beginning to resonate. Active-duty
military leaders are starting to voice misgivings about the war?s planning,
execution and dimming prospects for success............



Rumsfeld has lost credibility with the uniformed leadership, with the troops,
with Congress and with the public at large. His strategy has failed, and his
ability to lead is compromised. And although the blame for our failures in Iraq
rests with the secretary, it will be the troops who bear its brunt.

This is not about the midterm elections. Regardless of which party wins Nov. 7,
the time has come, Mr. President, to face the hard bruising truth:

Donald Rumsfeld must go.

http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-2333360.php

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