Rummy's Farewell Party
It's disgusting.
First we have to endure Medals of Honor to Tommy Franks and Paul Bremer, both of whom made enough mistakes to ensure that our ill-advised foray into whatever Iraq is (democracy promotion, preventing WMD, toppling authoriatrian regimes, opening up religious Pandora's Box, etc.) may be, but now we have the audacity of 19 gun salute sendoffs and gratuitous remarks from the top two executives of the country to a man that led the way into this morass and positioning of him as some kind of uber visionary that will be vindicated some day as right before his time.
Frankly, I'm appalled. And, a little disappointed. If this was anytime from 1968-1972, there would be mass protests in the street, putting the same kind of pressure on our feckless leaders to get out of Iraq that was put on LBJ to get out of Vietnam.
Sure, the circumstances are not exactly the same, but given the election results, where is the mass outrage? Have we all grown so complacent that we just sit back and wait for the next Congress to try and actually do something? Don't hold your breath on that one. Or, are we all still just too comfortable in our brainwashed, lulled into holiday shopping mode that we don't have the ability to muster any sense of duty as citizens to put this pressure on, not having been asked to sacrifice anything personally anyway by our "leaders" during a time of war?
Donald Rumsfeld asked way too many of our young people to make the ultimate sacrifice for a grand vision that has now turned into an all out religious war and may lead to a broader religious war and fight for supremacy in the Middle East, and far too many of them have paid the price in death or disfigurement. He wasn't alone in this, but he's been called the architect of it and along with his pal Cheney probably had more influence on the decisions made than most others that were involved (hello Wolfie and Feith).
What I'd like to see is the Democrat's holding a party for the generals that told the truth about troop levels needed before the war that Rumsfeld forced into retirement as a counterbalance to this sickening sendoff that Rumsfeld has just received.
Good riddance as far as I can see.
First we have to endure Medals of Honor to Tommy Franks and Paul Bremer, both of whom made enough mistakes to ensure that our ill-advised foray into whatever Iraq is (democracy promotion, preventing WMD, toppling authoriatrian regimes, opening up religious Pandora's Box, etc.) may be, but now we have the audacity of 19 gun salute sendoffs and gratuitous remarks from the top two executives of the country to a man that led the way into this morass and positioning of him as some kind of uber visionary that will be vindicated some day as right before his time.
Frankly, I'm appalled. And, a little disappointed. If this was anytime from 1968-1972, there would be mass protests in the street, putting the same kind of pressure on our feckless leaders to get out of Iraq that was put on LBJ to get out of Vietnam.
Sure, the circumstances are not exactly the same, but given the election results, where is the mass outrage? Have we all grown so complacent that we just sit back and wait for the next Congress to try and actually do something? Don't hold your breath on that one. Or, are we all still just too comfortable in our brainwashed, lulled into holiday shopping mode that we don't have the ability to muster any sense of duty as citizens to put this pressure on, not having been asked to sacrifice anything personally anyway by our "leaders" during a time of war?
Donald Rumsfeld asked way too many of our young people to make the ultimate sacrifice for a grand vision that has now turned into an all out religious war and may lead to a broader religious war and fight for supremacy in the Middle East, and far too many of them have paid the price in death or disfigurement. He wasn't alone in this, but he's been called the architect of it and along with his pal Cheney probably had more influence on the decisions made than most others that were involved (hello Wolfie and Feith).
What I'd like to see is the Democrat's holding a party for the generals that told the truth about troop levels needed before the war that Rumsfeld forced into retirement as a counterbalance to this sickening sendoff that Rumsfeld has just received.
Good riddance as far as I can see.
posted by Paul Salinger at 10:32 AM
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