Friday, November 10, 2006
Letters: Is Rumsfeld a 'victim of his own success'?I find the Register editorial, "Rumsfeld: discharge, less than honorable" {Opinion, Nov. 9}, dishonorable. The Iraq war is not the wrong war at the wrong time for the wrong reasons. This statement is Monday-morning quarterbacking at its worst.
In the months after 9/11, poll after poll indicated Americans felt the next attack on the United States was a matter of when, not if. Even liberal Democrats felt this to be true.
The fact that we have not been attacked is a brilliant military success on the part of President George W. Bush and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. This fact was brilliantly twisted by the Democrats during this last election cycle to mean there never was a threat. Bush and Rumsfeld are victims of their own success.
Despite what the Register editors believe,
the war in Iraq has been an unmitigated success. The initial victory against Saddam's regular army demonstrated the power and professionalism of our military, just as it is predictable a door-to-door, guerrilla-type war in the city of Bagdad would be messy, dangerous and time-consuming.
We are winning in Bagdad and Iraq. We in fact cannot lose, unless America decides for political reasons to cut and run.My only criticism of Bush's prosecution of the war is that
he has been overly sensitive to the prospect of civilian casualties at the expense of defeating the insurgency. Our military must take off the kid gloves and use tactical nuclear weapons to utterly demoralize and defeat the enemy. This will also reduce American casualties, as it did with Japan during World War II.
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