01 April 2003
Lordy, Is That Rumsfeld A Dimwit Part the Umpteenth
Richard Perle is gone. Seymour Hersh is still there. And judging by the rank stupidity described by Hersh in this brand-new article, Rumsfeld may be gone very soon:
"'The military is not like a corporation that can be streamlined. It is the most inefficient machine known to man. It’s the redundancy that saves lives'...Plan 1003 was repeatedly updated and presented to Rumsfeld, and each time, according to the planner, Rumsfeld said, “‘You’ve got too much ground force—go back and do it again.’” In the planner’s view, Rumsfeld had two goals: to demonstrate the efficacy of precision bombing and to “do the war on the cheap.” Rumsfeld and his two main deputies for war planning, Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith, “were so enamored of ‘shock and awe’ that victory seemed assured,” the planner said. “They believed that the weather would always be clear, that the enemy would expose itself, and so precision bombings would always work.”
One way or another, Rumsfeld is someone who should never have been given power of life & death over anyone, and we can only hope the Administration is wise enough to recognize at least this man will lose the war for them. And under the terms under which Bush has chosen to wage this war, losing or pulling out at this point would be a fatally emasculating blow to Bush forever. Rumsfeld is not long for this world barring the capture of Saddam Hussein this week.
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Is it not disingenuous for us to claim we're "liberating" the people of Iraq from anything? They’re trading one yoke for another at best, but if you only believe the administration's version of its motives and compare it to the actual approach, one is left with an image of a cop so obsessed with capturing a hostage-taker that he kills every hostage to get to him.
Richard Perle is gone. Seymour Hersh is still there. And judging by the rank stupidity described by Hersh in this brand-new article, Rumsfeld may be gone very soon:
"'The military is not like a corporation that can be streamlined. It is the most inefficient machine known to man. It’s the redundancy that saves lives'...Plan 1003 was repeatedly updated and presented to Rumsfeld, and each time, according to the planner, Rumsfeld said, “‘You’ve got too much ground force—go back and do it again.’” In the planner’s view, Rumsfeld had two goals: to demonstrate the efficacy of precision bombing and to “do the war on the cheap.” Rumsfeld and his two main deputies for war planning, Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith, “were so enamored of ‘shock and awe’ that victory seemed assured,” the planner said. “They believed that the weather would always be clear, that the enemy would expose itself, and so precision bombings would always work.”
One way or another, Rumsfeld is someone who should never have been given power of life & death over anyone, and we can only hope the Administration is wise enough to recognize at least this man will lose the war for them. And under the terms under which Bush has chosen to wage this war, losing or pulling out at this point would be a fatally emasculating blow to Bush forever. Rumsfeld is not long for this world barring the capture of Saddam Hussein this week.
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Is it not disingenuous for us to claim we're "liberating" the people of Iraq from anything? They’re trading one yoke for another at best, but if you only believe the administration's version of its motives and compare it to the actual approach, one is left with an image of a cop so obsessed with capturing a hostage-taker that he kills every hostage to get to him.
Labels: politics
¶ April 01, 2003
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