There's virtually a new scandal everyday. Now, you have these retired generals calling for Rumsfeld's resignation and that has to tell you a lot about what an incompetent bumbling dumbshit he is. I don't remember anything like this before.

Now Libby's lawyers are saying he is not accusing Bush of Plame's leak and I say, who cares? We already know Bush & Cheney leaked info from the National Intelligence Estimate, that it was done anonymously to reporters, that they let a reporter languish in prison for nearly 3 months before finally releasing her from her confidentiality. We know the intelligence leaked was extremely selective. It left out any assessments that were contrary to Bush's case--namely those assessments saying that Iraq trying to purchase yellowcake from Niger was extremely unlikely. Since the estimate was still classified, the public had no way of knowing about the assessments. That amounts to Bush once again deceiving the public, and changing facts to fit his conclusions. Since the leak was in response to Joe Wilson's critical article, the leak was done for no other reason than to try to discredit Joe Wilson. Certainly such tactics had nothing to do with national security which would never allow for the info to be leaked anonymously to reporters. The Plame incident hardly matters in the face of such damaging revelations.

Such revelations dovetail very well with both the revelation that Bush went public with the WMD trailers KNOWING they were false as well as the British intelligence report concerning Bush telling Blair in February 2003 that he was going to invade Iraq whether WMD were found or not. It also jibes well with the Downing Street Memo which stated Bush was bending facts to fit his invasion plans and that virtually nothing was being planned for what would happen after the invasion.

This memo, in turn, jibes with the situation we see in Iraq. Three wasted years for the U.S. which failed to foresee the insanity of invading with a tiny army, the lunacy of completely tearing down existing govt infrastructure and rebuild it from scratch with new people, the insurgency, the unchecked theft of billions by unscrupulous contractors, the prisoner abuse debacle, etc. but very, very productive years for al-Qaeda. This war has taught them a great deal and allowed them to recruit, train, expand and mature and grow more sophisticated and perfect their tactics, strategies and techniques. The war enabled Islamic terrorist groups to become well-funded by receiving huge ransoms in exchange for the return of kidnap victims.

Now the govt has discovered that sensitive military data in Afghanistan is available to anyone with the money from Arab vendors who receive a great deal of stolen goods from the US bases that are tended to by Afghans who steal what they can sell on the black market. Among the info available to commoner or terrorist who cares to purchase it for a pittance were American troops' names, what training they received, Army technical manuals, and even four generals' social security numbers!! Much of the info is smuggled out on memory sticks.

And we wonder why we can't quell the insurgency. Christ, we advertize our business all over the place and have no protocol for keeping sensitive information from getting into the populace.

Really, you can see why all those generals want Rumsfeld to resign. He has nothing in place to prevent leaking, theft, abuse, fraud, waste. While soldiers go without adequate armor, others are making fortunes selling military gear to outside buyers.