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Rumsfeld Should Resign, For the Good of Our Democracy
By William D. Hartung
CURRENT UPDATES: March 28, 2003

Richard Perle's resignation as chairman of the Defense Policy Board highlights the "ethically challenged" environment that has mushroomed at the Pentagon under the leadership of Donald Rumsfeld

http://www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arms/updates/032803.html

Given the number of Iran/contra alumni that populate this administration, the choice of Khashoggi as an intermediary raises serious alarm bells. From Mideast envoy without portfolio Elliott Abrams, to John Poindexter (he of the discredited "Total Information Awareness" program) at the Pentagon, to Otto Reich at the State Department, the Bush administration is shot through with Iran/contra retreads who still don't seem to understand the primary lesson of that debacle: no security objective is important enough to justify secret foreign policy machinations that undermine the will of Congress and the public.

Donald Rumsfeld is perhaps the most secretive, most power hungry member of the Bush inner circle. He has a lust for power that is every bit as strong as Madonna's lust for publicity.

Under the guise of reform, Rumsfeld has populated the Pentagon with a motley crew of former arms industry executives and right-wing ideologues that is largely responsible for the rapid reversal in regard and affection for the United States among our traditional allies around the world.

Rumsfeld is the wrong man in the wrong job at the wrong time.