Bye Rummy

In light of today's long-overdue departure of Donald ("The Defense Secretary You Have") Rumsfeld, I'd like to go back in time to this CNN story once more, particularly this excerpt (and, as ThinkProgress points out here via Atrios, Dubya's lie the other day about Rumsfeld remaining through the end of the term is somehow OK since it was "for political purposes").

While U.S. military commanders are busy making plans for possible troop reductions (in Iraq) over the next year, Rumsfeld avoided any predictions on when the roughly 137,000 U.S. troops would be cut back.

"We don't have an exit strategy," he said. "We have a victory strategy."

And this story was posted in April 2005.

What a shame that neither Rummy nor his incompetent cohorts have ever told us what the strategy was.

And by the way, here's an appropriate smackdown from Keith Olbermann...



Update 11/10: Lukery over at Wot Is It Good 4 is all over Rummy's replacement here (why should we expect anything different?).