Richard Cohen is Right: Rumsfeld Should Be Sacked

Richard Cohen writes one of the most stinging rebuke of Donald Rumsfeld. I totally agree with him and I think it is already overdue that Rumsfeld is sacked. But with one of the most incapable White Houses in American history, it will take some time before mistakes will be corrected. Unfortunately these mistakes are huge!

Yet the man who has had prime responsibility for Iraq, for planning for the war, waging it and then occupying the country, remains precisely what he has been all this time -- the head of the American military, the secretary of defense, the very honorable (but not very capable) Donald Rumsfeld. His mistakes, miscalculations and arrogant dismissal of dissent have cost American (and Iraqi) lives and prolonged the conflict. If there has been a worse secretary of defense, it could only be Robert McNamara. History has hung Vietnam around his neck like a noose.

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