O/T - Military Times Media Group: Time for Rumsfeld To Go

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More Rumsfeld Must Go - Military Times Media Group: Time for Rumsfeld To Go
November 3rd, 2006 @ 11:18 pm



As I reported here a short time ago, military newspapers will publish an editorial on Monday calling for Donald ‘Rumsfeld to go’. The editorial not only calls for the ouster of Rumsfeld, it affirms the disastrous, dismal situation in Iraq. The Bush administration and Congressional Republicans have ignored the repeated calls for Rumsfeld to step down, but how can it deny a call so loud and clear from the military?

Here it is, the Military Times Media Group Editorial via the San Francisco Chronicle’s Ross Report:

An editorial scheduled to appear on Monday in Army Times, Air Force Times, Navy Times and Marine Corps Times, calls for the resignation of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

The papers are sold to American servicemen and women. They are published by the Military Times Media Group, which is a subsidiary of Gannett Co., Inc.

Here is the text of the editorial, an advance copy of which we received this afternoon.

Time for Rumsfeld to go

“So long as our government requires the backing of an aroused and informed public opinion … it is necessary to tell the hard bruising truth.”

That statement was written by Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Marguerite Higgins more than a half-century ago during the Korean War.

But until recently, the “hard bruising” truth about the Iraq war has been difficult to come by from leaders in Washington. One rosy reassurance after another has been handed down by President Bush, Vice President Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld: “mission accomplished,” the insurgency is “in its last throes,” and “back off,” we know what we’re doing, are a few choice examples.

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