Would you let this guy run your war? Don Rumsfeld giggles after a press conference, thinking he successful convinced Americans that war setbacks were everyone's fault but his.
Doesn’t he remind you of that anal retentive Vice Principle on Boston Public?
As the war turned uglier than the shock and awe campaign he promised America, when Iraqis didn't welcome us with open arms as he swore they would, when the Iraqi army didn't roll over and die as he predicted, what did Secretary of Pretense Don Rumsfeld do? Blamed other people.
That's right, Don Rumsfeld proved that when the going gets tough he can't take it. He revealed himself to the world as one of those little office weasels we all hate. You know the kind: He takes someone else's work and sells it as his own. Then when things don't go exactly according to plan, he blames the person whose idea he stole to start with. Then he blames everyone else.
And when the war's over and our 400 billion dollar military finally trumps Iraq's little two billion dollar army, who’s going to be the one taking the credit? Don Rumsfeld.
Last week Don Rumsfeld the US military stepped to the plate with the bases loaded and fouled off the first pitch for a strike. When the press called it a foul, Rumsfeld went nuts and blamed the press for calling it a foul instead of a home run.
Then he launched his temper tantrum. The US' failure to hit one out of the park, is Tommy Frank's fault. Of course, he didn't come out and say that. He said. This was Tommy Frank's war plan. But we got the message.
Then he blamed the liberal my ass press for reporting the war in a way that made him look bad, forgetting, of course, that he gave them a front row seat so they could show off his nifty little war. Then he blamed the French and the UN.
Of course the military still has six pitches to swing at (not counting the pitches they foul off), so it's not like the US military rolled over and died on him, but, god damn it, they were supposed to knock it out of the park on the first pitch like he promises.
PS: Did you know that our French-bashing Secretary of Pretense hired a Haitian-French nanny named Le Roche when he was in Congress? What a hypocrite!