Rumsfeld Steps Down; Nation Claims It Ran First Editorial Calling For It

Within minutes of the announcement of Donald Rumsfeld stepping down as Defense Secretary, those liberal smartypants at The Nation remind us that their 2003 editorial, they claim, was the first to directly call for Rumsfeld’s head:

Rumsfeld Should Go
by The Editors
(from the April 21, 2003 issue of The Nation)

The Defense Secretary should resign–now. Although George W. Bush is ultimately responsible for the catastrophe unfolding in Iraq, it is Donald Rumsfeld who is the Cabinet member directly charged with planning and carrying out the nation’s wars.

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