Rummy's present unpopularity is a distraction away from Bush's illegal war

[glarius]

The media is using the flap about Rummy as a decoy to distract attention away from what is REALLY wrong, which is the mess in Iraq.....As long as the media has Rummy's phony signature etc. to pound away at, they don't have to ask questions about why Iraq is sinking further and further into a morass.....All we are hearing about on CNN (and others) is jabber about Rummy, and should he go or should he stay....Either way, his being there or not has nothing to do with making things right again....Anyone who replaces Rummy will have the same mess that is there now!....No one in the media is speaking up and saying going to war was wrong! ......and that is the main problem, IMO.

P.S...Do you think that if some reporter, with guts, spoke up and said, "it is believed that the war was a mistake and even illegal", any other journalists would have the guts to join in?

[raggedcompany]

1. re: Rumsfield is a decoy

I agree wholeheartedly. Whether he stays or goes--and I don't think Bush is going to turn on him-- is neither here nor there. The fact is that Iraq is a disaster by any measure. Everone else in the world is reading about Iraq. We're reading about signatures. Go figure.

[ComerPerro]

2. Sounds familiar, doesn't it

Remeber all the complaints about Tenent?

It was supposedly his fault that 9/11 happened, and his fault that Bush was "misled" about WMD.

And then Bush awards him the highest civilian honor and the press doesn't say a god damned thing. Doesn't even raise an eyebrow.

Its all a distraction, he is taking the heat for Bush.

In the next few months, expect Rummy to resign in disgrace, and then a month later he will be awarded a Medal of Freedom and praised for all of his briliant planning.

[stray cat]

3. It also deflects blame from Bush to Rumsfeld nt

[glarius]

4. Exactly!

[Lone_Star_Dem]

8. That's how I see it.

He's being set up to be the sacrifice if they decide they need one.

[TyeDye75]

9. Maybe thats why so many cabinet members jumped ship

because asshat in cheif is gonna have to do a lot of scraficing over the next four years.

[glarius]

10. My main point though is that I wonder what would happen if the media would

start questioning the legality of the Iraq war. If some brave, lone member of their ranks would have the guts to start the ball rolling....If one journalist could get the media hammering away at the "illegal war", the reasons for which Bush lied about in the first place, through repitition,they might get through to the public that voted for him....

[coloradodem2005]

5. Makes sense.

Now they are truly blaming their own.

[nascarblue]

6. Rummy sold 15 billion in Arms to Pakistan 2 weeks ago....

....when he left Kuwait, he went straight to India and sold arms to India and their mortal enemy Pakistan. Something like 15 billion in arms to Pakistan who just successfully tested a mid range missle last month.
:nuke:
Funny how you haven't heard anything about this. I'd say that was much more scandalous, selling arms to two third world nuclear armed country's that hate each other.:nuke:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1209/dailyUpdate.html

[nascarblue]

7. I also don't think he is going anywhere because...

...he knows too much about what really happened on 9-11. I'd say Rummy, Cheney, and Rudy were the men behind the curtain on that day.

[question everything]

11. Agree. When I heard the recent Gallup poll about Rumsfeld

declining approval rate, I thought: who cares?

Frankly, I think that Rumsfeld is one adult in that whole frat house where sucking up to the captain is the most important achievement.

Rumsfeld is as good as his marching orders are.

[JerseygirlCT]

12. I agree

I think they'll ride this one as long as they can, then eventually make a big deal about a "decisive" decision to dump him. (You know, now Bush is such a good guy, listening to the voice of the people and all...)

That ought to hold the sheeple for a good while.