For some reason the phrase springs to mind. Call me crazy, but I'll take the "under" on Rummy making it to the mid-term elections.

Rummy says, "We are truly fortunate to have a leader of resolve at a time of war. Through all the challenges, he remains the same man who stood atop the rubble of lower Manhattan, with a bullhorn, vowing to fight back."

Didn't Colbert say that Bush held the same view on things on Wednesday, as he did on Monday, without taking into account the events of Tuesday?

Yes, Bush is the "same man who stood atop the rubble of lower Manhattan". That is the problem. Five years have past.

Everyone feel safer now?

When I first skimmed the wire service articles on this, I thought Rumsfeld had broken ranks and was, finally, warning the American people about the Fourth Reich that threatens our futures.

Never mind. Same old Goebbels Junior.

TLC

What's most interesting about these comments from Rumsfeld is not how daffy they are.

I mean, after all, what is he SUPPOSED to say? At this point? We were wrong? We were all in the grip of a group delusion? We've killed thousands of people and further destabilized one of the most dangerous and violent places on the planet for no reason other than our outsized egos and the profits of the companies we hope to work for when we get out of office?

I mean, really. What can he possibly say other than what he said? Bush and Cheney and all their people are painted into a tight corner, by their own doing, and they're just making the best of it, by their lights, anyway. Based on their performances over their entire careers, you could hardly expect them to do or say anything else.

So, Rumsfeld's comments are hardly surprising. No, what's interesting here is this: does he really believe what he's saying? Do any of them? Because if they do, they are genuinely deluded. Psychotic even. Certainly disturbed in the formal, medical textbook definition of the term.

If they don't, they're complicit in a criminal enterprise.

I vote for the latter, myself. Or, both, maybe. Some days they're just plain nuts...some days they're knowing criminals who lie through their teeth to protect themselves.

Hm. No matter how you look at it...Rummy, Dickie, Georgie and the rest, are in deep, deep water now. And their daily comments show it.

When's MSM gonna get wise to all this? Hmmm?

From the faulty Team B assessments of the Soviet Union during the Ford/Reagan Administrations to this very moment, has this man ever looked at a set of facts and charted a course of action that's proven to be wise and correct at the time or with the benefit of hindsight?

This is the kind of propaganda that makes me mad enough to have the "resolve" to put my fist in Rumsfeld's face.

The families of 2,670 dead U.S. Soldiers and the nearly 20,000 wounded U.S. Soldiers and their families who are victims of this propaganda ought to be offended by this cretin.

He is no better than Joseph Goebbels.

No weapons of mass destruction.

No link to Osama.

No link to Al Qaida.

No yellow cake from Nigeria.

No welcoming parades for the American military.

No oil money to pay for the expense of the war.

You still have to SNEAK into and out of Iraq to visit the troops.

Certainly not. But he (and bush and cheney) are pulling the wool over a lot of eyes. It doesn't matter if they believe it. It matters that many, many americans are foolish enough to fall for it and enable this bunch of criminals.

Nuremburg

"With the growing lethality and availability of weapons, can we truly afford to believe that somehow vicious extremists can be appeased?"

Hey Mr. Rumsfeld -- with the growing lethality and availability of weapons, can we truly afford to use military action to solve all our problems? I mean, it's fun and patriotic to be a raging gorilla scaring the dickens out of the rest of the world, but considering all the countries we're going to have to invade and occupy before we transform the planet into FreedomLand, we're gonna be looking at a lot of IEDs. Matter of fact, the only way we'll be safe is if we confiscate everybody's cell phones, limit their internet access and plant little GPS chips in everybody. Oh.....

I thought the Republicans were the party of "personal responsibility." They say so, when it comes to social programs and any government program to help the poor, anyway. But when it comes to taking responsibility for their own actions, the actions of the government they have created, they pull out this "blame America first" crap. Well guess what - I, too, believe in personal responsibility. And I plan to express that belief at the polls this November.

Their preposterous words still have power. Because their words are quotations out of The American Myth. And because the people who supported them do not want to admit that they (the supporters) were wrong. So who has the stature and the pulpit to lead us toward the light? It has to be somebody from their side.

Maybe Colin Powell. I do not want him as President, but if he speaks up, if he says, "I should have spoken sooner," voters might listen. And if he spoke up, I would change my mind about him as President. John McCain could have a huge impact, if he would break with Bush, and speak against Bush. But he probably will try to ride the Bush train out to the end of the tracks, rather than wrecking it now. Maybe General Schwartzkopf could start something... Tommie Franks??? We probably can't get Jesus.

But we are about to have a different problem. Bush, Cheney, Rummie, Gonzales et al. will be out of there pretty soon. We will not have them to kick around anymore. We need to try to kick them out now, rather than waiting for them to expire amid elaborate indemnity guarantees and airtight executive privilege. If we wait, we will wind up like them, ranting against G.W. Bush after he is gone, they way they still rant against W.J. Clinton.