Democrats Target Rumsfeld - Lawmakers to Seek a Vote of No Confidence

[Kadie]

Democrats Target Rumsfeld
Lawmakers to Seek a Vote of No Confidence in Defense Secretary

By Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, September 1, 2006; Page A09

Under assault from Republicans on issues of national security, congressional Democrats are planning to push for a vote of no confidence in Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld this month as part of a broad effort to stay on the offensive ahead of the November midterm elections.

In Rumsfeld, Democrats believe they have found both a useful antagonist and a stand-in for President Bush and what they see as his blunders in Iraq. This week, Rumsfeld compared critics of the war in Iraq to appeasers of Adolf Hitler, a hyperbolic attack that Democrats hope will backfire.

But even before that attack, Democrats and some Republicans had maintained that Bush has never held anyone in his administration accountable for decisions in the Iraq war that many military analysts say went disastrously wrong. The decisions include not mobilizing enough troops to keep the peace, disbanding the entire Iraqi army and purging all members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party -- including teachers and low-level technocrats -- from the Iraqi government.

"Secretary Rumsfeld's stewardship of this effort is a failure, and he has let down our armed forces," said Rep. Rahm Emanuel (Ill.), chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, who is pushing for the no-confidence move.

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[pinto]

1. Interesting move. This'll be a good one to watch.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

2. Holy Shit They're Startin The Heavy Strategy. Go Get Em!!!

This is a great idea. It backs them totally into a corner and is a win win proposal in my opinion. It's about time we start using tactical maneuvers against them as they have against us, and I'm quite pleasantly surprised to see this idea.

We can do this! Retake Congress November 06!!!!!!

:toast:

[Hubert Flottz]

3. Good but...

Rummy wasn't the only PNAC goon in on the lies and the grand theft and the killing and the torture!

[w4rma]

4. This seems like a page 1 story to me, but the WP made it a page 9

story. The WP also began the article with an attack from Republicans, rather than talking about the story itself.