Rare Candor - Deconstructing the Rumsfeld Memo

[dArKeR]

Welcome to Rumsfeld’s reality. It’s a brave new world in Washington now that Donald Rumsfeld has revealed the true nature of the conflict in Iraq. Americans didn’t sign on for a “long, hard slog,” as Rumsfeld put it so memorably in a memo to his top generals.

RUMSFELD’S WORDS CONFIRM what critics of the war have been saying. The invasion of Iraq was a costly diversion from the broader war on terrorism, and not the central front as President Bush has claimed. Rumsfeld frets that the religious schools known as madrassas are turning out terrorists at a faster clip than U.S. forces can capture them.
Rummy’s revelations are exquisitely timed. Just as Bush is complaining about the national press “filter,” along comes Mr. Filter himself with a sour assessment of the administration’s success in combating terrorism. This is classic Washington. You have to read the entrails. Did Rumsfeld intentionally leak this memo? Was he getting back at the White House for that little reorganization deal they pulled a few weeks ago that seemed to move him aside to make room at the top for Condoleezza Rice?

http://msnbc.com/news/984733.asp?0cl=c1

[opihimoimoi]

1. Rummy is pissed, PISSED. Seems to me its VINDICTIVENESS

He is cleaning up his act nevermind the consequences.

Spilling his guts. Hurt Bush and Co.??, he don care anymore.

I think he is on his way OUT and he knows it.