Blood payments for Flawed Leadership

Blood payments for Flawed Leadership:

Bad news continues to pile up around Don Rumsfeld like garbage at a land fill. The latest blast came from an unlikely source, The Army Times, which conducted a poll showing that 64% of enlisted men think Rumsfeld should tender his resignation immediately.

It would be impossible to find a more conservative publication than the Army Times or a more compelling reason for stepping down. Still, the recalcitrant Rumsfeld shows no sign of caving in or loosening his withered grip on the levers of power.

Earlier in the week, an equally devastating article appeared in the New York Times 'Criticism of Rumsfeld Widens to Young Officers' echoing that younger officers are just as sick of the glib Rummy as their elders. One anonymous officer noted, 'We have not lost a single tactical engagement on the ground in Iraq'.The mistakes have all been at the strategic and political levels.' Confidence in the Secretary is deflating more rapidly than the air leaving a punctured tire.

Most of the grumbling about Rumsfeld seems to center on his two salient attributes; arrogance and ineptitude, the twin-axels of predictable failure. There isn't one part of the 3 year occupation he hasn't mishandled, mismanaged or completely bungled. His tenure at the War Dept represents the greatest collapse of leadership in the history of the republic.

You're doin' a heck-uva job, Rummy. "