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...Unca Donald! (From TomPaine.com via Buzzflash)

Ray McGovern works for Tell the Word, the publishing arm of the
ecumenical Church of the Saviour in Washington, DC. He previously worked
for 27 years as a CIA analyst. He is co-founder of Veteran Intelligence
Professionals for Sanity.

Listening to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on ABC yesterday, I was reminded of his infamous “long, hard slog” memo of October 16, 2003, to top Pentagon brass. The memo mentioned that he had asked our regional combatant commanders, “Is our current situation such that ‘the harder we work, the
behinder we get?’” That memo was leaked to the press almost immediately, but
we never learned what those commanders told Rumsfeld.
Two years later, Rumsfeld has now heard, indirectly, from the commanders fighting the war in Iraq. The silver-tongued defense secretary seemed blindsided yesterday, when he was asked by ABC News to explain why the colonels apparently departed so
sharply from the official line that they have all the troops they need in
Iraq. The interviewer referred Rumsfeld to a Time magazine report yesterday about an unusual closed-door meeting last week at which 10 battalion commanders were asked for their unvarnished views on the situation in Iraq.

Bet he didn't like this much either:

The colonels made their splash in a private, uncensored hearing with concerned senators John Warner, R-Va., chair of the Armed Services Committee, and Carl Levin, D-Mich., and Mark Dayton, D-Minn. Congressional staff members took part,
but apparently absent were the civilian minders from Rumsfeld’s office who normally tag along.

And THIS got out:

So their (the Colonels, Ed.) credentials are impeccable. They told the senators not only that they needed more troops, but that their repeated requests had been “turned down flat.” The battalion commanders indicated that, as a result, their units had to “leapfrog” around Iraq to keep insurgents from going back into towns that had been cleared by U.S. forces. They added that there are never enough explosive experts to deal with the roadside bombs responsible for the majority of U.S. casualties.

OUCH!

...so your wage war with the excuses you have, not the excuses you wish you had...