In an e-mail from Senator Clinton today, she tells me that:
Yesterday, when Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld testified in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee, he couldn't answer my questions about the Bush administration's enormous policy failures in Iraq.
I asked him about the administration's gross underestimation of the nature and strength of the Iraqi insurgency as well as the sectarian violence. And I asked him why, when 2006 is supposed to be a year of significant transition to full Iraqi sovereignty, we are moving in the opposite direction, increasing instead of decreasing the forces in Iraq.
Not only were his answers inadequate, but Secretary Rumsfeld denied making overly optimistic assurances to the Committee in the past, claims that were easily refuted with a simple look at the record.
Our military deserves new leadership that can give us a fighting chance to turn the situation in Iraq around—starting now. It's time for President Bush to accept Secretary Rumsfeld's resignation.
As I told Rumsfeld yesterday, the collective common sense of Americans neither understands nor approves of the way the Bush administration is handling the war in Iraq. It is time for a change in policy in Iraq—and a change in leadership in Washington.
Read the first two post here, and I must say - I SO like you! Bush should accept Rumsfeld's resignation, and we should accept Dubya's. I cannot stand that man. Grrrr.
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