White House defends Rumsfeld from McCain criticism

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070220/pl_nm/bush_mccain_dc

The White House defended Donald Rumsfeld on Tuesday from criticism from Republican Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record) that he was one of the worst U.S. defense secretaries ever for his handling of the Iraq war.

McCain, one of President George W. Bush's key allies in the U.S. Congress on Iraq, is running for his party's nomination to be president in 2008.

"I think that Donald Rumsfeld will go down in history as one of the worst secretaries of defense in history," the Arizona senator and former Vietnam War veteran said on the campaign trail in South Carolina on Monday.

The White House backed Rumsfeld but was careful not to criticize McCain in doing so.

"We think Donald Rumsfeld was an enormously consequential and effective secretary of defense and somebody who led to the transformation of the
Department of Defense. Senator McCain holds a different point of view," said White House spokesman Tony Snow.

Rumsfeld, the second-longest serving defense secretary, was widely blamed for the U.S. failure to bring stability to Iraq amid growing public discontent over the war.

[shain from kane]

1. Many people thought he was OK, except for that Mein Fuehrer crap.

[Bobbie Jo]

2. These people have GOT to be exhausted....

I mean with the constant ass-covering and all. There has to be a limit as to how much bullshit one can shovel in a day's time. :eyes:

[waiting for hope]

3. Now, who would have guessed

that would happen......blah blah and more blah.:sarcasm:

[mdmc]

4. done a heckuva job!

[skypilot]

5. What a shitty job Tony Snow has:

Having to defend a shit like Rumsfeld against a shit like McCain. Ugh.

[wicket]

6. kick

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