Just a quick aside here today.  There’s been much talk recently about a quote that Cheney used the other day at Rumsfeld’s going away party.  I still really can’t believe that he actually said the following:

In his regard for our people in uniform, in his unwavering strength through unprecedented challenges, in his example of leadership and patriotic service, I believe the record speaks for itself: Don Rumsfeld is the finest Secretary of Defense this nation has ever had.

Here’s a link to the actual coverage. 

It’s simply amazing that in the middle of this tragic war our Vice President still seems extraordinarily out of touch with reality.  This is the exact sort of rhetoric that is so far out of the mainstream that voters wholeheartedly rejected it last month. Yet it still continues.  There was a bipartisan effort to replace Rumsfeld and his replacement has received bipartisan support.  Perhaps Rumsfeld did some positive things in terms of modernizing the military, but in my mind that is completely overwhelmed by the Iraq disaster.  If he is the finest Secretary of Defense the nation has ever had, I’d hate to see the worst. 

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