The Illusionist!

The Illusionist!



Hey, guys, anybody remember the name Rumsfeld?



While everyone is blaming each other for the disaster that is Iraq, whatever happened to

The Mastermind—the "stealth avenger" who ran the Pentagon with an iron hand?



After the speech and the pat on the back, the Stealth Avenger disappeared to his estate on tony St. Michaels and nothing’s been heard of him since. In the meantime, generals are dropping like flies….



In his tragic wake, the general staff has been decimated and the regular army is panting for a break. But that is compounded by the needless deaths and serious wounds that number in the tens of thousands due to bad decisions made by Cheney’s fair-haired boy….





. This ego driven megalomaniac blamed everyone else for everything that went wrong during this entire misadventure. . Clearly, he’s never heard or accepted that the buck stopped at his desk; nor has he ever once accepted responsibility or apologized for the worst misadventure this country has ever embarked upon..



If this guy had one scintilla of honor, he would have done the right thing: He would have fallen on his sword and spared the rest of us a plethora of investigations, accusations and more blood on the ground..



But no way! This Cold Warrior has more lives than a feral cat..



Let us not forget that when push comes to shove, he was the ultimate architect of the Iraqi War. Under our system, the generals reported to him, and he went ahead with his crazy ideas because he knew full well that he had a rabbi that watched his back, Cheny…..



So, while we’re about it, let’s get some of the facts out of the way that "they"--the cabal in charge-- would prefer we forget:



Rumsfeld was the man who put the arguments together for War—even though they’ve all proved hollow!



Rumsfeld was the man who decided to cut back our armed forces…He didn’t listen to his generals!



Rumsfeld was the man who sent the flower of our youth into war without the appropriate protection and without the necessary armored vehicles or support…



Rumsfeld was the man who had no plan for what to do after the fighting stopped…





Rumsfeld was the man who failed to see the handwriting on the wall; who failed to anticipate that the Sunni would face off against the Shia’; the man who went to war with no plan for peace…



And virtually every one of Rumsfeld's ideas was a miscalculation of the worst kind….



What did our Executive do in the face of such incompetency?



We gave him a dinner at taxpayer’s expense and sent him off to a nice retirement with his pockets full…



Now, the reality is settling in.



We have a war that has gone on longer than the Second World War and we are being told by the Vice President that things are going well. To top that off, the president tells us that all we need to is add another 20,000 men and all will be well. They are either mad or think we are complete fools!



If Bush's "new" solution held water, why wasn’t it executed when General Shinseki asked for the extra boots on the ground?

You can’t make policy four years after the fact and expect to turn bad planning around 48 months later with the addition of 15% more men for six months!



You may insult us, but don’t take us for complete fools!



It’s time to deal this administration a reality check and start handing out the punishments to the deserving few at the top.



Talk about dereliction of study, a failure to accept responsibility for programs gone woefully wrong, and an inability to institute policies that worked. If this were the civilian sector, the stock holders would not only have left such a CEO go, they would have pilloried him…



The rest of the country has paid in tens of thousands of horribly wounded young people who have given their all and more than 3,000 dead!...



And if that doesn’t cry out for justice, what does?



Don’t let Rumsfeld off the hook!.



Don’t let this man—a danger to himself-- retire to his mansion on St. Michaels and give the finger to justice. It sends a bad message.



Use your telephone and your typewriter to demand that this man pay the full price for his arbitrary, insensitive and wrongheaded administration of the war effort.

Shake up your reps~ Let them know that you really care about their profound neglect of justice…



Les Aaron

TheArmchair Curmudgeon

www.lesaaron.blogspot.com