Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy

Rummy resigns, and all it took was the Republicans losing control of Congress the night before. Kate over at Small Dead Animals feels that the only “meaningful reaction” to this news can come from American talking-head bloggers. While they may make the most effort to remain civilized to one of the worst parts of the Bush administration, they will have the most meaningless banter about his career.

Today is the first day of the new American holiday Rummydone. Pun oh so intended. It consists of fasting during the day, … no wait, that’s Ramadan. In Rummydone, it’s an all day party where you start sending troops real armour for their combat, and stop a war that was started on lies about WMD, and being welcomed as liberators.

If you want to sum up Rumsfeld in a few words, I can think of some unflattering ones which describe him as a ‘wide’ ‘mule-like’ cretin. The highlights of his career? Wow, I’m sure the Daily Show will make a hall of fame video send off for him containing the following moments:

• Rummy shaking Saddam’s hand in the 1980s.
• Rummy saying the WMD are to the “east, west, south, and north” of Baghdad and Tikrit.
• Rummy replying with a smirking “Oh my goodness…” to serious charges made against him by a reporter concerning the Iraq war.
• “Retired generals had better operational information than I did,” said satirical Mr. Rumsfeld “When I gave a news conference, everything I said was doubted by the reporters. But now that I’m retired, the big news media will hire me to talk about what’s really going on in the theater of operations. I just wasn’t in the loop before.”* *UPDATE: Kate provided links to some humourous accounts of Rummy’s career. Well bowl me over with a feather.
  
• “As you know, you have to go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you want,” Rumsfeld actually said. He added, “You can have all the armor in the world on a tank, and it can [still] be blown up.”
  

With a highlight reel like that, it’ll be one heckuva slideshow at the retirement party. More thoughts from around the blogosphere. I wonder if Bush knew when the retirement party was going to be held? Even if he did, he’d probably lie about it to the press, because you know, it’s a matter of national security, not some silly partisan game. Don’t you love it when Bush lies to the media, then explains to them how and why he lied to them? “The only way to answer that question and to get you onto another question was to [lie and] give you that answer *throat clearing nervous chuckle*.”