Title: SAY GOODBYE TO RUMMY - WITHIN WEEKS HE WILL RESIGN Source:
THE GIFT TO SEE THE TRUTH URL Source:[None] Published:Jun 4, 2006 Author:TLBSHOW Post Date:2006-06-04 10:40:35 by TLBSHOW Keywords:None Views:21096 Comments:91
Rumsfeld, Cheney, and Bush have done more damage in 6 years than any administration in U.S. history. Sadly this is no exagerration. The Republican Party should pay the price in the Nov. elections for nominating such an incompetent President.
While I don't think Rumsfeld is going anywhere, I have to agree that our position in the world just in the past 2 years has been greatly diminished and our credibility tattered and ruined, thanks to this administration.
We need to reconcile with the world community and do some serious apologising to the Iraqi people and to our grandchildren for leaving them a world of fear and destruction, all because our hearts ran too fast. And we must promise that we eschew our tendency to be uncritical of our leaders and our country's policies.
Our new foreign policy going forward (or at least for the next administration, whoever that may be) should be one of thoughtfulness and reconciliation, not of incuriosity, jingoism, speculation and aggression.
Biden told NBC's "Meet the Press" that the accountability for Haditha and other alleged atrocities in Iraq should go all the way up to Rumsfeld. (Watch Rumsfeld's critics fueled by Haditha incident -- 2:17)
"We can't get rid of the president; he's there for two-and-a-half more years," Biden said. "There is a system of accountability. ... When you make serious mistakes, you step forward and you acknowledge them and you walk away.
"Presidents can't and shouldn't do that. Secretaries of defense can and should."
Biden said Rumsfeld "should be be gone; he shouldn't be in his office tomorrow morning."
A frequent critic of the Bush administration's policy in Iraq, Biden has previously called for Rumsfeld's resignation.
Retired Maj. Gen. John Batiste, who led the 1st Infantry Division in northern Iraq in 2004-2005, on Sunday also called for "a secretary of defense whose instinct and judgment we all trust."
Batiste told CNN's "Late Edition" he sees "a direct link between Haditha, the national embarrassment of Abu Ghraib, going on four years now of uncontrollable chaos in Iraq, with the bad judgment, poor decisions of our secretary of defense back in late 2003 and 2004."
"We went in under-resourced, overcommitted. And the strain on the force is unbelievable," Batiste said.
Batiste was one of several retired generals to publicly call for Rumsfeld's resignation in recent months. Responding to their calls, President Bush in April defended Rumsfeld, saying he was doing "a fine job." (Full story)
On Sunday, a Pentagon spokesman could not be reached for comment
