Editorial: Rumsfeld should resign

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CAPITAL TIMES

Editorial: Rumsfeld should resign

An editorial
September 6, 2003

Is there anyone in the world who seriously believes that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz handled preparation for and execution of the U.S. invasion of Iraq appropriately, or that they are doing so now?

Certainly, our oldest and best allies do not think so. France, Germany, Canada, Mexico and other countries with which the United States has a history of diplomatic, political, economic and military ties all rejected the unilateral approach adopted by Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz. Even now, as U.S. representatives to the United Nations try to get agreement from that body to join in efforts to stabilize Iraq, France and Germany are stalling because they say -- with some validity -- that the United States has not moved off the unilateralist stance that created the mess in the first place.

Certainly, members of Congress are becoming increasingly ill at ease with the Department of Defense's shoot-first, think-later strategy. When Wolfowitz, the department's theorist-in-chief has gone to Capitol Hill in recent months, he has faced tough questions from Democrats and Republicans who want to know why the war has not turned out as Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz predicted, how many more troops will be required to stabilize Iraq, how much this war is going to cost and whether there's an exit strategy. There are even some senators, such as Rhode Island's Lincoln Chafee, a Republican, and Wisconsin's Russ Feingold, a Democrat, who would like to know what happened to all those stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction Iraq was supposed to have.

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