Stolid Rumsfeld Soldiers On, but Weighs Ability to Serve

[oldhat]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/13/politics/13RUMS.html?hp

WASHINGTON, May 12 — Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, the man at the center of the furor over American soldiers' abuse of Iraqis at the Abu Ghraib prison, spent last Sunday in the backyard garden of his elegant Washington home, poring over Pentagon documents piled 10 inches high in his lap. Mr. Rumsfeld barely listened as his wife chatted with a visiting friend.

"At least he was sitting outside — it was a beautiful day," said the friend, Margaret Robson, describing the scene. "That's a good thing to do if you're under a lot of pressure."

As calls continue around the world for Mr. Rumsfeld to resign — and are rejected by the Pentagon — confidantes say that the defense secretary finds stability in his normal workaholic routine. He still gets in early, close to 6:30 a.m. He still has his morning round-table conference with top Pentagon aides, his daily Central Intelligence Agency briefing and his twice-weekly breakfasts with members of Congress.

But as the scandal widens and deepens, Mr. Rumsfeld is said to weigh every day whether he can continue to effectively run the world's largest military.

[CharlesGroce]

1. I believe one has to be enlisted at some point in one's life...

to soldier on.

The NYTimes is pure progaganda. Soldiering on. Sure. They must mean war criminaling on.

[mike_c]

2. chicken hawking on....

Squawk! I hope he shares a cell with Chalabi some day....

[oldhat]

3. Rummy

Rummy flew planes in the Navy. Never saw combat.

[0007]

8. Does that make him smart or out of the extraordinary or something?

Idiot Jeff Sessions, of Alabama, said that the president and his defense secretary appeared relaxed while getting ready for the nightly circle jerk.

[cliss]

4. Good-bye, Donald Rumsfeld.

Good riddance to bad rubbish. You know when you die, you will become a ghoul to menace the living, as you did when you were in the material realm.

[UTUSN]

5. What's Our Choice-----------WOLFOWITZ?????????

Oh, never mind--------we've already got Shrub.

[0007]

9. I don't think that would even be a consideration, but what do I know?

[UTUSN]

10. WOLFOWITZ Is the Deputy

If Darth Rums resigns, WOLF would be "Acting" pending confirmation of an appointee. It would take a long time. WOLF would be there for the duration, unless there was a mass purge, like NIXON-AGNEW. No?

In the Meantime,

[0007]

11. I understand. But Wolfowitz does carry a lot baggage.

I think the country would be in an outrage if Wolfie took over.

[DUreader]

6. I can't even read beyond the whore york times' whore headline

[gratuitous]

7. Workaholic routine?

This is the same guy who hasn't had time to leaf through the reports on prisoner abuse and torture or even look at the pictures before his appearance before the committee last Friday, right? And he's a workaholic?

Please, NYT. Don't insult my intelligence any more than you absolutely have to, okay?