Dowd Does Rummy
22 March 2006 3:14 pm by Taylor Marsh
Dowd Does Rummy
Once the picture of virility, Rummy seems to now be the poster
child for senility.
… One administration official says that Rummy does
not hold the same sway in meetings anymore, that he's treated as an eccentric
old uncle who pops off and is ignored. But why can't W. just quit him? Instead,
the president praised him for doing “a fine job” on two wars and
transforming the military, when Rummy actually bullied the military to go
along with his foolish schemes in Iraq and has sapped the once-feared fighting
machine. …
Dowd's
column is behind the firewall, but that little snippet is the best nugget.
“Eccentric old uncle who pops off and is ignored.” That
would be hilarious if Donald Rumsfeld weren't in charge at the Pentagon.
