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It occurrs to me that I would like to have Rumsfeld “hauled before Congress every week”(or so) to justify his management of the war. And what does Bennett think will happen — that Iraq and Afghanistan will dissolved into chaos without Rumsfeld’s constant attention? That’s a risk I am willing to take. ~Clark Stooksbury I […]

It occurrs to me that I would like to have Rumsfeld “hauled before Congress every week”(or so) to justify his management of the war. And what does Bennett think will happen — that Iraq and Afghanistan will dissolved into chaos without Rumsfeld’s constant attention? That’s a risk I am willing to take. ~Clark Stooksbury

I don’t know if we can handle all of the chaos that would go with more effective Congressional oversight.  I mean, just consider how efficiently and competently things have been managed up till now.  Do we really want to jeopardise that kind of success?

Perhaps Bennett should go back to hawking his ghost-written books and leave the campaigning for others.

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