Is Rummy Wobbling?

Maybe we here at LitR should start a pool for when Rumsfeld finally decides to leave public service, no doubt for “personal reasons” or “to spend more time with his family”.   Here’s yet another retired general calling for the man’s removal.  Now the list so far includes:

• Retired Army Maj. Gen. Charles H. Swannack Jr., who commanded the 82nd Airborne Division in Iraq shortly after the toppling of Saddam Hussein
• Retired Army Maj. Gen. John Riggs, who once headed an Army task force to transform the service's structure and weapons systems
• Marine Lt. Gen. Gregory S. Newbold, former director of operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff (noted in the blog below)
• Army Maj. Gen. Paul D. Eaton, head of training Iraqi forces in 2003
• Marine Gen. Anthony C. Zinni, the former head of U.S. Central Command

Koko’s cynical prediction: the administration will launch a counter-campaign calling into question the integrity of the criticizing generals and the ethics of speaking out so soon after retirement.  If this does not work, we’ll start to see reports of Rumsfeld’s health deteriorating as a precursor to his eventual retirement.