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By Deborah White, About.com Guide to US Liberal Politics since 2005

Barbara Boxer Proposes Senate Resolution to Fire Rumsfeld

Saturday September 2, 2006
Outraged by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's inflammatory August 29 speech on the War in Iraq, Senator Barbara Boxer announced that, when Congress reconvenes next week, she will introduce a Senate Resolution for "the President to appoint a new Secretary with the vision and leadership qualities necessary to lead the Department of Defense."

Said Senator Boxer, "This latest Rumsfeld rampage cannot stand. By comparing critics of this Administration’s policies in Iraq with those who wanted to appease fascism and Nazism in the run up to World War II, he is slandering the majority of the American people, who oppose the war in Iraq."

Bravo, Senator Boxer! It's about time the Senate actually DID something to help fire the obviously incompetent Donald Rumsfeld.

For your delighted reading, I uploaded Senator Boxer's Resolution to Fire Donald Rumsfeld, Defense Secretary. She spells out the damning case against Rumsfeld simply and quite succinctly.

Related Reading
Profile of US Senator Barbara Boxer of California
Hillary Confronts Rumsfeld Over Iraq War
Democrats See Support for Anti-Rumsfeld Vote, New York Times, September 3, 2006
Donald Rumsfeld's Dance with the Nazis, by Frank Rich, New York Times columnist, September 3, 2006

Comments

September 2, 2006 at 7:41 pm
(1) Kelly Mahan Jaramillo says:

Dear Deborah,
I am a writer for the political satire publication deadBrain U.S. - our editor, Allen Voivod, has been working for the last three years putting together a PAK to get Rumsfeld fired - He just launched it, and we are doing everything we can to spread the word. If you go to www.KickRumsfeldOut.com, you will find all of the information - please join in, spread the word, and let us all as liberals and Democratic minded people show that we can do more than be angry - let’s get grassroots on Rummys rear, and have a laugh doing it. It is time we took back our country, and the public needs to have their voices heard in their desire to GET RUMSFELD FIRED!!

Please pass this along in any forum you can.

Thank you!

KMJ

September 2, 2006 at 7:43 pm
(2) Kelly Mahan Jaramillo says:

Dear Deborah,
I am a writer for the political satire publication DeadBrain U.S. - our editor, Allen Voivod, has been working for the last three years putting together a PAK to get Rumsfeld fired - He just launched it, and we are doing everything we can to spread the word. If you go to www.KickRumsfeldOut.com, you will find all of the information - please join in, spread the word, and let us all as liberals and Democratic minded people show that we can do more than be angry - let’s get grassroots on Rummys rear end, and have a laugh doing it. It is time we took back our country, and the public needs to have their voices heard in their desire to GET RUMSFELD FIRED!!

Please pass this along in any forum you can.

Thank you!

KMJ

September 2, 2006 at 7:46 pm
(3) Kelly Mahan Jaramillo says:

Sorry about hitting something twice!

Obviously I get a little wound up over ol’ Rummy!

Best,
KMJ

September 3, 2006 at 12:15 am
(4) Marcus says:

Boxer 4 prez in 2008

September 4, 2006 at 9:02 am
(5) Progressive Voice says:

My greatest concern with this hyper-focus on firing Rumsfeld is the implication that this debacle we’re in is all “Rummy’s fault” when in fact the buck stops clearly on the desk of the POTUS. Drumming away at “fire Rummy” ultimately helps Republicans and, per usual, implies to the less - informed among us that this isn’t really Bush’s fault…. just those who happen to serve him. Aaaack!

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