Rumsfeld loses an army

Troops can forgive a lot; bad food, stupid commanders, idiots in political office, and still stay loyal to the powers that be.

Two things, however, are unforgivable:

The first is being flagrantly lied to about the mission at hand. And by now, everybody serving in Iraq knows about the lies. All the reasons for invading and occupying Iraq have turned out to be utter bullshit.

The second, the real deal breaker, is being told those by the man who runs the Pentagon that he doesn’t give a shit if you live or die, and then seeing the President praise him as a great leader right after that, instead of throwing his worthless ass out the door.

In covering Rumsfeld’s disastrous December appearance before the soldiers in Kuwait, the media missed the point, as usual, and buried the deal breaker.

It wasn’t the crack about “going to war with the army you have” that sent the shock waves rolling.

It was when he told the soldier who demanded more armored vehicles: “If you think about it, you can have all the armor in the world on a tank and a tank can be blown up. … And you can have an up-armored Humvee and it can be blown up.”

When the histories of the rebellion of the U.S. armed forces against the Iraq war are written, that will go down as the tipping point that cost the Empire this army.

Rumsfeld’s stupidity his given every anti-war soldier a new audience, new openings to organize, new respect, and protective cover. It’s OK now to trash this worthless soldier-killing piece of shit, and a very short step from that to pointing out the insanity of the war he so ardently pursues.

When the enemy staggers and blunders, and lets the ugly truth slip out, it’s time take the opening offered. Take it easy, but take it.

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