September 05, 2006

Is That Blood On The Floor?

Belgravia Dispatch

Wow.

When the moderates loathe you, it's time to hang it up.

Posted by baltar at September 5, 2006 09:51 PM | TrackBack | Posted to International Affairs | Iraq


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That's soooo harsh - and soooo very richly deserved.

Posted by: Armand at September 5, 2006 10:21 PM | PERMALINK

This isn't new, exactly -- Sullivan has been calling for Rumsfeld's resignation for months, and I've seen a few other fits of Rummy-bashing in center-right land. But it is definitely gathering steam.

Posted by: jacflash at September 5, 2006 10:27 PM | PERMALINK

Yeah, Belgravia has been calling for Rumsfeld to resign for a while, but never with quite so much, uh, verve. I mean, hey, he put the whole speech up, and took it apart. I haven't seen that anywhere else. Bloody.

At this point, Rumsfeld going might be the first brick that lets the wall fall down. How could Rumsfeld resign without some sort of wholesale re-evaluation of the entire Iraq/Terrorism policy?

Posted by: baltar at September 5, 2006 10:44 PM | PERMALINK

How could Rumsfeld resign without some sort of wholesale re-evaluation of the entire Iraq/Terrorism policy?

Resignations and firings, even the infamous purging of Brownie, have yet to lead to a wholesale reevaluation of anything. Why would not be different? Perhaps because the Iraq war is the biggest blunder of all (in execution, issues pertaining to the wisdom of going to war in the first place notwithstanding)? That much has been clear for years, and we've yet to wholesale anything. Still only read the beginning of the BD post, but I'm looking forward to checking it out later.

Posted by: moon at September 6, 2006 10:20 AM | PERMALINK

No, I didn't think it would lead to any reflexive self-examination within the White House; my comment was directed at public perception/public attitude. I think if Rumsfeld goes, that will be a public sign that Bush is admitting that things are very wrong (whether Bush admits this himself, or the administraiton admits this to themselves is another question).

Posted by: baltar at September 6, 2006 10:16 PM | PERMALINK

Bush will never admit things are wrong.

Not until somebody waterboards him, anyway.

Posted by: jacflash at September 6, 2006 10:44 PM | PERMALINK

Given the extraordinarily tight reins that Rummy has kept in order to control the DOD I'd say his departure could signal at least some change. True, it might not happen, and a wholesale reevaluation is highly unlikely. But at least around the edges ...

Posted by: Armand at September 6, 2006 11:30 PM | PERMALINK
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