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Military Times: Fire Rumsfeld

Military Times, which is carried in bases across the United States and overseas, calls for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s firing in a strongly-worded editorial today:

It is one thing for the majority of Americans to think Rumsfeld has failed. But when the nation’s current military leaders start to break publicly with their defense secretary, then it is clear that he is losing control of the institution he ostensibly leads.

These officers have been loyal public promoters of a war policy many privately feared would fail. They have kept their counsel private, adhering to more than two centuries of American tradition of subordination of the military to civilian authority.

And although that tradition, and the officers’ deep sense of honor, prevent them from saying this publicly, more and more of them believe it.

President Bush has rebuked calls to fire Rumsfeld. The Defense Secretary’s popularity is so low that some (vulnerable) Republicans are actually calling for him to resign as well.