SCAPEGOAT? MORE LIKE A GOOD START. The Washington Post's Sally Quinn seems strangely confident that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will recognize that he is hurting America and step down following the midterm elections. I'm not holding my breath, but I would certainly welcome this long-overdue development -- Rumsfeld holds great responsibility for the disaster in Iraq and for the growing problems in Afghanistan. The ongoing revelations in the press and in Cobra II, Fiasco, and now Bob Woodward's State of Denial have made that clear. Needless to say, I also believe that his bosses George Bush and Dick Cheney are equally if not more culpable. Awful decisions like the disbanding of the Iraqi Army should have been recognized as such and vetoed at the highest levels. But, alas, you go to war with the president and vice-president you have, not the president and vice-president you wish to have.
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Blake Hounshell
