Rumsfeld back to asking and answering his own questions

[Crankie Avalon]

Rumsfeld's Iraq regret: Calling the war a "war on terror"

Donald Rumsfeld allowed just one U.S. journalist to accompany him on his taxpayer-funded farewell tour to Iraq: Fox News' Sean Hannity. And when Rumsfeld sat down for an interview with Hannity, it seems that he didn't have much to say.

His thoughts after reading the Iraq Study Group report? "I skimmed it."

His explanation for his departure? "The outcome of the election" caused George W. Bush to believe that it would be better if he were gone -- a take-no-responsibility answer that's interesting, as Think Progress notes, only because it contradicts Bush's claim that Rumsfeld was going to be out no matter what happened in November.

Rumsfeld's advice for his successor? "I don't have any advice for him."

Maybe that's not such a bad thing...

SNIP

Rumsfeld then launched into a 700-word soliloquy on troop levels, but it didn't concern his failure to send enough troops to Iraq in the first place so much as the calls -- from John McCain and a handful others -- to send more troops now. And it wasn't exactly a "what I would have done differently" moment: "Do I know that the right number is there? No. Do I think it is? Yes. Is there anyone who is smart enough to prove it is or isn't? No."

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/

[Ian_rd]

1. Am I douchebag? Yes!

Do I replace your questions to me with easier ones of my own design so I can answer those instead of yours? Yes!

Do I think terrorists are bad? Yes!
Did I think removing Saddam would cease all violence in the world forever? Of course not!
Are there some who love the terrorists and want them to win? Yes!
Do I laugh and dance whenever an Iraqi family is slaughtered because of this war? Of course not!

[jimshoes]

2. Don, you were fired...

accept it. No one cares what you think any more. Enjoy your forced retirement. If there is any justice in this world, you will shortly be standing in the prisoner's dock in the Hague.

[louis-t]

3. A doddering old man who will soon be talking to himself

and answering more of his own questions. Rummy has made himself irrelevant except for the war crimes trial.