Well goodness me, golly gee, my word.
Yesterday, Senator Hillary laid into Rummy over the administration's egregious failure of policy in both Iraq and Afganistan, even (finally) calling for his resignation. She should have done this a long time ago, we all know this, but whatever, at least she finally said it. Snaps, Hill.
She said it pretty well and very mean-teacherly, as you would expect. She had Rummy gosh-gollying and rhetorical question-asking and answering himself so wildly that I'm sure he got a whopper of a belly-ache.
So she says to the guy :
"I just don't understand why we can't get new leadership that would give us a fighting chance to turn the situation around before it's too late," the New York Democrat told the Associated Press. "I think the president should choose to accept Secretary Rumsfeld's resignation."
"There's a track record here," countered Clinton. "This is not 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, when you appeared before this committee and made many comments and presented many assurances that have frankly proven to be unfulfilled."
Does anyone ever understand what the fuck he is ever talking about? :
"Are there setbacks? Yes. Are there things that people can't anticipate? Yes. Does the enemy have a brain and continue to make adjustments on the ground requiring our forces to make adjustments? You bet," he said.
"Is that going to continue to be the case? I think so. Is this problem going to get solved in the near term about this long struggle against violent extremism? No, I don't believe it is."
The Presidential Bust. I'm not too sure about those nostrils.
Finally, my personal favorite nugget of inspriration:
The defense secretary said he expected the violence there to follow a seasonal pattern and decline as winter approaches.
Ciao, buddies.
-Nina
(yeah, you might have to sign up for a nytimes.com account... so what man, you should have one anyway).
Quotes courtesy of the AP
New York Times recap of the event
Funny political cartoons by Daryl Cagle
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