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<DIV align=center><FONT face="Arial Rounded MT Bold">Resign, Rumbo?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=center><FONT face="Arial Rounded MT Bold">Cindy Sheehan</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Rounded MT Bold">We now have everyone from Senators (both
parties) to Generals (retired, of course) to the <I>Army, Navy, Air Force, and
Marine, Times </I>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Rounded MT Bold">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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Rounded MT Bold">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 <I>American Idol</I> 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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Rounded MT Bold">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!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Rounded MT Bold">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
<I>Stratego</I> that has no end for us bereaved families who will never be the
same because of inhuman era.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Rounded MT Bold">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? </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Rounded MT Bold">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.
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Rounded MT Bold">This would be true progress in our
search for peace and justice.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><EM><FONT face="Arial Rounded MT Bold">Vote for Peace on November 7th and
join </FONT><A title=http://www.gsfp.org/ href="http://www.gsfp.org/"><FONT
face="Arial Rounded MT Bold">GSFP </FONT></A><FONT
face="Arial Rounded MT Bold">for their accountability sit-in surrounding the
White House.</FONT></EM><FONT size=2></DIV></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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