From The Seattle PI
By Helen Thomas

It’s time for President Bush to shake up his Cabinet, starting with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and some of his cohorts at the Pentagon who have made so many costly mistakes.

Let us count the ways, starting with Rumsfeld’s braggadocio “shock-and-awe” approach to the disastrous war in Iraq. Rumsfeld was a foremost adviser in urging President Bush to attack Iraq, using the 9/11 catastrophe as a catalyst, even though there was no involvement of Baghdad in the terrorist attack.

After that, all systems were go.

Rumsfeld is a co-founder of the Project for the New American Century, which years ago put Iraq at the top of the neo-conservative agenda for future military action in the Middle East.

In the run-up to the war, Rumsfeld catapulted to celebrity status as he strutted at televised news conferences and reassured the public that U.S. troops would be most welcome in Iraq.

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