Actually, Dick's More like Sonny, but...
Billmon has some thoughts in light of Fredo-ya's strong support for SecDef:
It's obvious why so many of Rummy's enemies are crawling out of the woodwork now -- they're hoping to improve the odds that the field marshall wil be swept away by the same broom that removed Andy Card and that is said to be hovering over the posteriors of McClellan and John Snow.
My advice would be: Fuggetaboutit. The chances that Dick Cheney will fire his old boss and ideological comrade in crime are only slightly higher than the chances that Rumsfeld's removal would lead to even a minor improvement in the situation in Iraq. It's almost like asking Cheney to fire himself.
To be honest, I think the pair of them would get rid of Junior before they would ever consider stepping down. This absolute determination to hold on to office at all costs may seem bizarre, considering how old and sick these guys are -- and how much shit is coming down on their heads every day -- but it's just the way these things work...
And so it has for Donald Rumsfeld [keeping power and holding on to it] -- with the added incentive that if he departs now, all anyone will remember about him twenty years from now is that he was an old man in a hurry who screwed things up and then was forced to resign.
Which is true, but not exactly the kind of epitaph an arrogant control freak like Rumsfeld would want chiseled on his headstone. Just thinking about it must burn like napalm. Surrender? Hell, he's just begun to fight!
So save your fire for more promising targets of opportunity, generals -- like the lower-ranking members of the cabal: Wolfowitz, Feith, Perle, Cambone, Wurmser, etc. You might be able to ruin their standing with the conservative true believers, make them radioactive enough that they'll never be able to slither back into the U.S. government again. But I'm afraid the Field Marshal is too heavily armored even for your rounds.
Unless, of course, Rummy sides against the family...
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