Yesterday our Senators missed obvious opportunities to call out Rumsfeld on the Iraq debacle.
Slate:
Rumsfeld replied, "The plan is to prevent a civil war and, to the extent one were to occur, to have the Iraqi security forces deal with it, to the extent they are able to."
That's not a plan, and Rumsfeld must know it. He even, wittingly or not, left an opening in his reply--Iraqi security forces will deal with it, "to the extent they are able to"--that any high-school debater would have plowed through with gusto. "To what extent are they able to?" would have been one decent follow-up.
But nobody followed up.
This has got to stop, and if no one else is going to do it, then we ought to take some action.
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