I agree with Baltar's post below that the prison abuse scandal is hardly the top reason to fire Rumsfeld. While some of his military transformation inclinations seem to be on target, he's made a string of disasterous decisions and in a perfect world he should have been pushed out of office long ago. However, I don't see it happening. It seems the only thing that can get you fired in this administration is being off message, and I think firing Rumsfeld might be too public an admission of the failures of this administration's policies. Which isn't to say that it's impossible that it will happen. If Karl Rove decides it's helpful politically to get rid of him I expect that we would quickly see Sean O'Keefe installed in the DOD. However, until that happens I think President Bush will keep yet another dangerously inept lightning rod in office in order to deflect criticsm from himself -- at least until November.
Posted by armand at May 9, 2004 12:50 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Politics