Don, We Hardly Knew Ya

Even I’m beginning to feel sorry for Don Rumsfeld. It appears that every Republican politician in the country has always known that Don was the guy who screwed up Iraq. Little did I know when I was asking for his head on a platter some months ago that the insiders of the Bush administration were way ahead of me in calling for his scalp.

Andy Card - everybody’s nicest guy in Washington candidate after Don? Say it ain’t so, Andy? Laura Bush – who’d o’ thunk it? Condy Rice, Colin Powell, and Joe Lieberman – oops he’s a Dem, er independent – all of ‘em knew all along that Don would screw up anything he touched. Wow!

The Republican strategy is becoming very clear. Don’s the incompetent moron who screwed up Iraq. It was the right thing to do but we turned it over to Don. How could we have known he’d goof it? He had a nice record under Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Bush 41, so you can’t blame the president for thinking he could do the job.

Mistakes were made – Don said the aluminum tubes were for centrifuges; al Qaeda and Saddam weren’t playing footsie – that was Don; the museum looting – Don; over de-Baathifying – again, Rummy; on and on Rumsfeld did it all. Now Bob Woodward says he’s really indecisive and makes sure that he leaves no finger prints on bad moves; the Republicans knew that all along. It’s even rumored that he ordered the firing on Fort Sumter.

But attacking Iraq was really the right thing to do if only Rumsfeld hadn’t been incompetent; just ask any Republican. It was the right policy but the wrong guy was in charge.

It looks like Don’s going to have to come up with health problems some time in mid-November. Sad, he still looks good for the old man who screwed up Iraq, Hewlett Packard, Sony batteries, the war on terror, and Hurricane Katrina.

So long, Don; even Wild Bill had no idea just how incompetent you were. And if Bill didn’t know, how can we hold George accountable? Impeach Wild Bill!

Blog on!

Wild Bill