I'm pretty sure there are more. Sheesh. Hey, someone ought to call for Rummy's resignation, don't ya think?
Dean, Kerry call on Rumsfeld to quit
Defense secretary accused of ‘pattern of deception’ on Iraq
The Associated Press
Updated: 12:56 p.m. ET
Sept. 26, 2003WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 - Democratic presidential candidates Howard Dean and John Kerry have called for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to resign, citing a “pattern of deception” in his statements on Iraq and a failure to plan for the postwar period.
KERRY, A SENATOR from Massachusetts, first said Thursday that Rumsfeld should step down, saying he proceeded in Iraq “in an arrogant, inappropriate way that has frankly put America at jeopardy.”
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3087318/ Kerry: Rumsfeld Should Quit
May 6, 2004 (CBS/AP) Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry has renewed his call for Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to step down amid the growing scandal over the alleged abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. soldiers, reports CBS News' Steve Chaggaris.
"I called for Rumsfeld's resignation months ago over Iraq," Kerry told reporters Thursday. He said the abuse reports only compound the reason for Rumsfeld to quit.
"It's the way it was handled. The lack of information to the Congress, the lack of information to the country, not managing it, not dealing with it, recognizing it as an issue. But look this is, this is the frosting," Kerry said during a campaign appearance at a California high school.
"I think Iraq and the miscalculation and the overextension of the armed forces and the entire way in which they rushed the nation to war under these assumptions that he was making — which were incorrect — is a huge, historic miscalculation and I thought he should have resigned then."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/07/politics/main616272.shtml Kerry Suggests Replacements for Rumsfeld
Thursday, May 13, 2004 WASHINGTON — Presidential candidate John Kerry (search) said Wednesday the war in Iraq (search) is a failure and that a shake-up is needed to end the Bush administration's mistakes and incompetence, a sharp critique that sparked more Republican criticism that the Democrat is making the war a political issue.
"Why should we reward more of the same? Why should we reward miscalculations of what it would take to make the peace?" Kerry asked in an interview with Associated Press Radio. "I think that it's been one miscalculation after another, frankly. And arrogance that has lost America respect and influence in the world."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,119741,00.html Kerry: Rumsfeld 'accountable' for Abu Ghraib
Oakland Tribune,
Aug 26, 2004 by Jodi Wilgoren, New York Times
GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Teeing off two reports detailing abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, Sen. John Kerry on Wednesday renewed his call for Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to resign, citing the need for "accountability that runs through the civilian command."
"It's not just the little person at the bottom who ought to pay the price of responsibility," Kerry told union members at a steamfitters hall in Philadelphia before heading to Green Bay. "Harry Truman had that sign on the desk and it said, 'The buck stops here.' The buck doesn't stop at the Pentagon. And in this case it doesn't just stop with any military personnel."
Speaking on the same day that the Army announced that 35 military intelligence soldiers had been implicated in prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib, Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee, also called on President Bush to appoint another commission to probe the scandal, focused on the chain of command and the Geneva Conventions.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_20040826/ai_n14580880 Wednesday, January 19, 2005Kerry asks for supporters to sign Rumsfeld recall petition
Kerry, who recently returned from a Middle East trip that included a visit to Iraq, wrote in the letter to supporters "please join me in my call for President Bush to fire Donald Rumsfeld."
"He's the man responsible for the well-being of our troops. He's neglected his duty. He's made excuses. It's time for him to go," Kerry wrote.
http://ifk-johnkerry.blogspot.com/2005/01/kerry-asks-for-supporters-to-sign.html Mr. President,
I was surprised and disappointed that you told the Washington Post last week that no Bush administration official should be held accountable for our failures in Iraq. As the situation worsens and more American lives are lost and troops deployed to the region, it's time to stop rewarding incompetence and to start demanding accountability. For the sake of our men and women in uniform and their families here at home, I urge you to start by replacing Donald Rumsfeld. His record of failure and his inability to play it straight with the American people and our troops overseas make him unfit to serve as Secretary of Defense for one more day, never mind four more years.
If you care about restoring our credibility around the world and our credibility with our troops on the ground in Iraq, you've got to start by removing Donald Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense. That's why I am joining Senator John Kerry and hundreds of thousands of Americans in adding my name to the johnkerry.com petition calling for Rumsfeld's immediate removal from office.
I urge you to act without delay. We can't afford any more auto-penned letters of condolences and shifting stories about what kind of armor we have to protect our troops.
American soliders and their families are counting on you as Commander in Chief to hold those in charge of the war in Iraq to the highest standards.
Paid for by Friends of John Kerry, Inc.
http://www.johnkerry.com/petition/rumsfeld2.php October 31, 2005Kerry Blasts Rumsfeld Again
Colmes asks, and Senator John Kerry (MA) blasts:
COLMES: Do you think there should be resignations, with or without indictments?
KERRY: Well, I said about two years ago that I thought Donald Rumsfeld should resign because his management of the war has really been inexcusable. Every prediction made has been proven to be wrong.
He neglected the most important thing, which is do all you can to protect the troops. And still, there are problems with up-armored Humvees or armor. I think it's a disgrace, and I think he should have long ago resigned.
http://www.dems.us/2005/10/kerry_blasts_ru.html December 05, 2005Kerry: Rumsfeld should be fired
By Rick Maze
Times staff writer
Democrats are drawing a bead on Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, with Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., becoming the latest Democrat to call for the Pentagon chief’s firing.
“The president owes it to our troops serving in Iraq to remove Secretary Rumsfeld and replace him at the Pentagon with a defense secretary who understands the situation on the ground in Iraq and who will advance, not undermine, American values around the world,” Kerry said in a statement Monday.
Kerry, the failed Democratic presidential candidate last year, said Rumsfeld is sending “dangerous mixed signals about Iraq.”
“Does the defense secretary really just throw up his hands and accept that ongoing terrorist attacks are inevitable in Iraq and for the foreseeable future? Is he now admitting that the Bush administration’s mistakes have made Iraq what it was not before the war — a haven for terrorists?” Kerry said.
http://www.navytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-1394500.php 
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