Rumsfeld Agrees with Me

The New York Times reports that two days before his resignation Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld sent a memorandum to the White House suggesting new options in Iraq. Among those options is this one:

Position substantial U.S. forces near the Iranian and Syrian borders to reduce infiltration and, importantly, reduce Iranian influence on the Iraqi Government.

I suggested the same thing in a post back in August. In that post I noted that Rumsfeld was concerned about the Iraqi border as early as February 2004. The question is, why is he just recently suggesting that something be done about the border? After all, he was in charge. Perhaps that's why he was fired. (I recommended that too back in September.)

It is possible though that Rumsfeld resigned of his own accord out of frustration with the White House interfering with the implemention of his policies in Iraq.

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