[T]he whole national security team should be fired.
It’s just not Rumsfeld and his deputy, Paul Wolfowitz – and his deputy, Douglas Feith – it’s also the director of central intelligence, George Tenet, and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice. They were wrong about the reasons for going to war; they were wrong about the danger of a terrorist attack before Sept. 11, 2001; they were wrong about how easy it would be to rebuild post-war Iraq, and they have been wrong about how Iraqis detained and imprisoned should be treated – not to mention denying U.S. citizens held in terrorism investigations their basic constitutional rights.
And we’re not even talking here about the No. 1 honcho on every aspect of the war: Vice President Dick Cheney. He can’t be fired, of course. But why does he have to be on the Republican ticket come November? Then again, the last president to shake up his government in a dramatic fashion was Jimmy Carter, and look where it got him. Once you take the top people out, there is only one person left to blame.
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