[PAA-Discuss] Resign, Rumbo?

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Resign, Rumbo?
Cindy Sheehan

We now have everyone from Senators (both  parties) to Generals (retired, of 
course) to the Army, Navy, Air Force, and  Marine, Times calling on SecWar, 
Donald "Rumbo" Rumsfeld to resign due to  incompetence. I think he should resign 
because incompetence is his forte' and  callousness is his calling card. But 
these strident calls for Rumbo's  resignation miss a couple of cogent points.
 
The outcry calling Rumbo to resign due  to incompetence is specious, at best. 
I think that in cowardly attempts to avoid  what is really important in this 
mistake in Iraq...calling for Rumbo to resign,  or for George to fire him, is 
definitely a smoke screen to not have to talk  about who else should resign: 
George, Darth Cheney, Condi, Alberto, etc. Rumbo  is not the only callous and 
incompetent member of this devious administration  who lied our country into 
war and has authorized crimes against humanity from  the very highest level of 
our government: the executive branch.
 
The focus on Rumbo also takes the focus  off of an illegal and immoral 
occupation. Instead of calling for Rumbo's  resignation, the same people who claim 
to support our troops should be screaming  for an immediate exit strategy. 
Victory is not possible in Iraq...our best hope  is to leave now, lick our wounds, 
and help the people of Iraq recover from  BushCo's high crimes and 
misdemeanor's the best we can without our military  presence in the region. With almost 
a million people dead due to the gross  ineptitude of BushCo and over three 
million displaced, it is time to stop  punishing one country for the crime of 
being trapped in George's corrupt and  insatiable lust for blood, guts and 
glory. It's ironic that the glory he sought  will be forever turned into infamy as 
he goes down in history as the worst  president in a long line of pretty bad 
presidents! A gullible public more  interested in American Idol than our 
nation's leaders committing or  endorsing cold-blooded murder were satisfied with 
the lies of a grateful Iraqi  public with oil flowing into our tanks and 
goodwill flowing over the oceans were  given only a desert awash with blood and guts 
and littered with shrapnel and  limbs blown off with cluster bombs that look 
like toys.
 
The increase in blood shed is due to  gross negligence and criminal 
incompetence with the additional complication of  training and supporting militias that 
are taking out old vendettas on each other  while targeting American forces 
in their spare time. A recent report detailed  that almost 300,000 small arms 
were unaccounted for by the US Military and are  probably in the hands of 
insurgents who are killing our children at an ever  escalating rate. Insurgencies 
can never be defeated and instead of "winning"  like George says we are we are 
becoming the laughing-stock of a world that sees  that an insurgency in a 
small country is holding off what was the mightiest  military on earth. The only 
thing that the illegal occupation of Iraq is proving  is that our military is 
weak in the hands of gutless alarmists who send our  children to die in a war 
that never should have been waged!
 
The historic bungling of Old "you go to  war with the Army you have" Rumbo is 
truly tragic and horrendous to us families  who have had a child killed due 
to his insipid and unintelligent leadership. My  own son, Casey, was in Baghad 
for 5 days when he got the call to go and save  some of his buddies who had 
been trapped in an ambush. The 182nd Field Artillery  division of the First 
Cavalry sent its human assets into a war zone before they  sent the armor...Casey, 
a humvee mechanic and motor pool driver, was sent into a  raging battle in 
the back of a trailer wearing a Vietnam era flak jacket. Our  children are 
precious and irreplaceable. Not pieces in an evil game of  Stratego that has no end 
for us bereaved families who will never be the  same because of inhuman era.
 
But, big but, if Rumbo resigns, are we  saying that we want a more competent 
murderer? The murderers in the White House  and the rest of BushCo will still 
be there and they have also been proven to be  scheming dimwits. What will our 
troops or the people of Iraq gain if one of the  neocon cabal resigns? 
 
Instead of calling for Rumbo's  resignation, good people of humanity from all 
parties, should be calling for  impeachment, removal from office and 
imprisonment for all of the Bush regime. 
 
This would be true progress in our  search for peace and justice.
 
Vote for Peace on November 7th and  join _GSFP _ (http://www.gsfp.org/) for 
their accountability sit-in surrounding the  White House.

 
 


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