Newspapers for troops call for Rumsfeld's ouster

[whimsicaldeb]

Newspapers for troops call for Rumsfeld's ouster
Matthew B. Stannard, Chronicle Staff Writer
Saturday, November 4, 2006

An influential chain of newspapers considered must-reading by military forces from California to Baghdad will call for the ouster of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in a scathing editorial to be published Monday.

"Rumsfeld has lost credibility with the uniformed leadership, with the troops, with Congress and with the public at large. His strategy has failed, and his ability to lead is compromised. And although the blame for our failures in Iraq rests with the secretary, it will be the troops who bear its brunt," the editorial says, according to an advance copy released Friday. "The time has come, Mr. President, to face the hard bruising truth: Donald Rumsfeld must go."

The editorial will run in the 250,000 copies of Army Times, Navy Times, Marine Corps Times and Air Force Times. The newspapers are published under the umbrella Military Times Media Group by Gannett Co. Inc., not by the U.S. military, and have been popular among American forces since World War II.

"It is extremely widely read and influential for the professional military," said David Segal, director of the Center for Research on Military Organization at the University of Maryland.

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[hester prynne]

Yay!!!!!!!
But what took them so long????
I and many others have been calling for this for the past two years.
It's validating yes, but it's so tardy that the elan of it is rather.....shrug.

H