corrente

Helena Cobban of the Christian Science Monitorwrites of one step Bush could take to get the UN and the Europeans to pull our chestnuts out of the Iraqi fire:

Let's be frank. Many key members of the UN Security Council would find it hard to lend their troops, the UN's name, and the enormous legitimacy that the UN enjoys around the world to a venture headed by Rumsfeld, a man who has gratuitously denigrated many friendly countries in public.

It would be easier to reach the needed agreement if Rumsfeld were no longer secretary of Defense. But there are other reasons, too, that Bush should consider letting Rumsfeld go. It was, after all, his decisionmaking at key points in the past two years that led the US into the present mess in Iraq.

Silly! The Bush regime believes accountability is for other people.

of course, it's interesting to see opinions like this surfacing in the mainstream media. Then again, job one is to get those guys outta there, so maybe it's best to leave Rummy twisting, twisting slowly in the wind. Anyone else think Rummy's smile is getting even goonier than usual?