We’ve Met the Enemy, Rummy, and He is You

Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld said everyone should stop talking about leaving Iraq. “We should consider how our words can be used by our deadly enemy,” he said. He’s right, since our deadly enemy is Donald Rumsfeld. The folks over at AmericaBlog have floated the scenario that the Bush administration is getting the United States ready for the news that Iraq is a disaster. And that’s why two generals were given scripts to read yesterday about a full-blown civil war being in the offing in Iraq. That sounds right. And of course Rumsfeld is on the way out. But who is on the way in? Would Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT) be offered the job? And would he accept? AmericaBlog thinks he might and that he should categorically state right now that he would never work in the Bush administration. I’m betting on Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England being the new Secretary of Defense. He’s certainly as qualified as Rumsfeld, Tenet, Chertoff, and Brownie to do the next heckuva job. All that’s needed is a warm body that will rubber-stamp Cheney and Co. And Gordon England’s credentials are perfect. He’s had a bunch of cushy corporate jobs. He’s been Secretary of the Navy but he’s never ever served in the military. He was the first idiot to be Deputy Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and he received the Silver Beaver Award from the Boy Scouts of America. Who better to be head of the Defense Department now that Rumsfeld has lost the war, started a civil war, killed 2585 American soldiers, killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqui citizens and single-handedly enabled terrorists to rule the Middle East unhampered? It would be changing horses in the middle of a war to appoint someone competent.