Cheney wanted to keep Rumsfeld ON

ugh, where to start.

Well, in the comfortable confines of Fox News of course.

http://www.foxnews.com/...

Cheney said despite Rumsfeld's controversial handling of the war in Iraq, the secretary of defense was managing the war successfully.

Please, I know don't smash your keyboard into your monitor, callllmmmm down.
because it gets worse, below the fold...

"I wouldn't be where I am today if it hadn't been for what Don Rumsfeld was willing to do," Cheney said, pointing to "the opportunity he was willing to give me nearly 40 years ago."

No, please say nooooo....

Dick Cheney disagreed with President Bush over the president's decision last year to remove Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld from office, the vice president told FOX News in an exclusive interview.

and your right because Rumsfeld's judgement was immpecible.

"We do know of certain knowledge that he [Osama Bin Laden] is either in Afghanistan, or in some other country, or dead."

"We know where they are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat." –on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction

"Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war."

and the gem is of course:

"It is unknowable how long that conflict [the war in Iraq] will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months." -in Feb. 2003

Ironically, Cheney goes on to torture us...

"I do the best I can to give him the kind of advice that I can," Cheney said. "Sometimes he takes it. Sometimes he doesn't."

When it came time to replace Rumsfeld after the Republicans lost both the House and Senate, Cheney's was an opinion Bush declined to take.

"Well, the way I put is, is that he wished Secretary Rumsfeld hadn't left, and wished to see him remain as the secretary of defense," Bush said, adding, "He's telling you the truth. And that's, that's the truth."

See, Rumsfeld was telling us the truth all along, we just refused to listen. ugh

Well fear not, you can catch the interview in it's entirety on Fox News

Dick Cheney: No Retreat," a rare glimpse into the life of the vice president hosted by Bret Baier and produced by Brian Gaffney, airs at 9 p.m. ET on Oct. 13 on the FOX News Channel.

Please don't shoot anyone or anything in the face.

•  You go to war...

  ...with the stupidity you've got, not the stupidity
  you'd like to have.

  So its all Rummy's fault, eh?

  Figures.

  Hope he enjoys that beachfront property as the water
  is rising...

  by JeffW on Thu Oct 11, 2007 at 10:47:16 AM PDT

•  technically Rummy still has an office at Pentagon

  and a staff, right?

  all the big decisions are made behind closed doors anyway. . .

  by AshesAllFallDown on Thu Oct 11, 2007 at 10:59:16 AM PDT

  •  He had a Pentagon office

    until January. He has an office in Washington to "sort" through his Pentagon files...and shred the Abu Ghraib/Gitmo torture files?

    While he maintains residences in the Maryland town of St. Michaels as well as in Taos, Rumsfeld also has kept a house in Washington and established an office downtown. He called the decision to remain in the capital a matter of convenience as he sorts through Pentagon files and works with the Library of Congress to archive his personal papers.

    He's established a "foundation" and will write his "memoirs" based on the memories he has not the memories he wishes he has? And he'll give private speeches. I'm sure he and Dick confer often behind closed doors and in total secrecy, as usual.

    by Panda on Thu Oct 11, 2007 at 11:41:38 AM PDT

•  Diary on the Price of Rumsfeld's Leadership

  For what it's worth, I literally just posted a diary about the price of Rumsfeld's leadership at the Pentagon:

  "Over just the past 24 hours, a flurry of stories have highlighted the growing and evolving burden facing the overstretched United States military. In Washington, Defense Secretary Robert Gates stressed the need to transform the American military to address the "fundamentally political nature" of its current and future conflicts. While the Marine Corps has proposed shifting its forces from Iraq to take over frontline duties in Afghanistan, the Army is offering bonuses of up to $35,000 to retain specialists from its rapidly shrinking officer corps. Meanwhile, responding to the uproar surrounding recent incidents involving Blackwater, the State Department may phase out its use of private security firms in Iraq.

  Collectively, these related tales of our overwhelmed military paint a picture of strategic failure dating back to the inception of the Bush administration. Beginning with Donald Rumsfeld's myopic military transformation, the seeds of today's overburdened, exhausted, mercenary-laden American national security posture were sown."

  For the details, see:
  "The Price of Bush's Military Transformation."

  by Avenging Angel on Thu Oct 11, 2007 at 11:22:44 AM PDT