"CUT AND RUN" RUMSFELD

(HAT-TIP TO MOLLY IVINS)

A Warrior Lays Down His Arms
By John Barry and Michael Hirsh
Newsweek
Nov. 20, 2006 issue

There weren't many people in the Pentagon brave enough
to give bad news to Donald Rumsfeld. Jim Roche, though,
was one. The Air Force secretary ...

In the fall of 2002 it was becoming clear inside the Pentagon
that George W. Bush intended to invade Iraq. A worried Roche
dragooned the then Army secretary, Thomas White, to join him
for a frank talk with Rumsfeld,


"Don, you do realize that Iraq could be another Vietnam?"
Roche asked. ... "Vietnam? You think you have to tell me
about Vietnam?" Rumsfeld sputtered. "Of course it
won't be Vietnam. We are going to go in, overthrow
Saddam, get out. That's it." Then he waved them out of
his office.