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BLUFFTON, S.C. - Republican presidential candidate John McCain (news, bio, voting record) said Monday the war in Iraq has been mismanaged for years and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will be remembered as one of the worst in history. "We are paying a very heavy price for the mismanagement — that's the kindest word I can give you — of Donald Rumsfeld, of this war," the Arizona senator told an overflow crowd of more than 800 at a retirement community near Hilton Head Island, S.C. "The price is very, very heavy and I regret it enormously." McCain, the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, complained that Rumsfeld never put enough troops on the ground to succeed in Iraq. "I think that Donald Rumsfeld will go down in history as one of the worst secretaries of defense in history," McCain said to applause. The comments were in sharp contrast to McCain's statement when Rumsfeld resigned in November, and failed to address the reality that President Bush is the commander in chief. "While Secretary Rumsfeld and I have had our differences, he deserves Americans' respect and gratitude for his many years of public service," McCain said last year when Rumsfeld stepped down.

Good article! Looks like we have a flip-flopper within the Republican army! LOL, hopefully the Democrats can pick up the slack and start campaignin' on this

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You know, when they forced Khruschev out, he sat down and wrote two letters to his successor. He said - "When you get yourself into a situation you can't get out of, open the first letter, and you'll be safe. When you get yourself into another situation you can't get out of, open the second letter". Soon enough, his successor gets into a tight situation, and he opens the first letter. It says - "Blame it all on me". So he blames it all on the old guy, and it worked like a charm. When he got himself into a second situation, he opened the second letter. It said - "Sit down, and write two letters".

^^ ha ha that is classic.. ^^

They gave him a thrashing over here too...

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"STUFF happens." Followers of the disastrous career of Donald Rumsfeld will remember that famous quip, made at a Pentagon news conference back in April 2003, not long after the invasion of Iraq. The Defence Secretary was at his sardonic worst, airily waving away the looting of Baghdad as a figment of the media's imagination. "Are we in a quagmire?" he went on, to sycophantic s******ing from the assembled Washington hacks. "Huh? Is that where we are? Come on!" Stuff happened to Rumsfeld far too late. Thank heavens he has gone at last, swept away in the Democrat triumph in the US midterm elections, but he should have been fired two years ago as that quagmire he did so much to create opened up before him. He hung on because he was protected by George Bush's culpable stupidity and by his long and scheming relationship with the Vice-President, "Deadeye Dick" Cheney, the power behind the White House imperial throne. But no more. Arrogant, stubborn, ignorant and, above all, just plain incompetent, Rummy will go down in the trash can of history as a secretary of defence worse even than Robert McNamara, who failed in Vietnam at such a catastrophic cost of American lives, treasure and international prestige. In the book that was his mea culpa, and in the movie based on it, The Fog of War - made in 2003 - McNamara listed a slate of lessons to be drawn from Vietnam by future Washington policy makers. "Our judgements of friend and foe alike reflected our profound ignorance of the history, culture and politics of the people in the area, and the personalities and habits of their leaders," he said. "We failed then - and have since - to recognise the limitations of modern, high-technology military equipment, forces and doctrine. We failed as well to adapt our military tactics to the task of winning the hearts and minds of people from a totally different culture." McNamara's lessons apply to Iraq. Either unwilling or unable to learn from the errors of history, Rumsfeld doggedly repeated them.

Mike Carlton

Not really much more to say on the matter, though we are to be blessed by a visit from Dick who will come down here fairly quietly and Mike Carlton doesn't much like him either
A funny read