Saturday, May 08, 2004

On the other hand...

...Maureen Dowd examines the record and offers some discouraging words to those who are overconfident that Rumsfeld's incompetence will finally do him in...

"After all, George Tenet is still running the C.I.A. after the biggest intelligence failures since some Trojan ignored Cassandra's chatter and said, "Roll the horse in." Colin Powell is still around after trash-talking to Bob Woodward about his catfights with the Bushworld "Mean Girls" — Rummy, Cheney, Wolfie and Doug Feith. The vice president still rules after promoting a smashmouth foreign policy that is more Jack Palance than Shane...

"The only people who have been pushed aside in this administration are the truth tellers who warned about policies on taxes (Paul O'Neill); war costs (Larry Lindsey); occupation troop levels (Gen. Eric Shinseki); and how Iraq would divert from catching the ubiquitous Osama (Richard Clarke)."

The passage I've highlighted is undeniably true, and distressingly encouraging, I'm afraid, to Rummy. Accuse him of what you will, but "truth teller" is a charge that definitely won't stick.

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