'Rumsfeld Threatened To “Fire The Next Person” Who Mentioned Iraq Post-War Plan... '

darkcrow

http://159.54.227.3/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060909/NEWS/609090335

surley a reason to fire someone. in business if you do not have a backup plan and your first plan fails then your boss will fire you. only in politics the stakes are much higher... hundreds of thousands of people in fact.

hippiemom

darkcrow wrote:

http://159.54.227.3/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060909/NEWS/609090335

surley a reason to fire someone. in business if you do not have a backup plan and your first plan fails then your boss will fire you. only in politics the stakes are much higher... hundreds of thousands of people in fact.

Someone ought to lose his job, that's for sure, but it isn't any of the underlings who tried to plan for post-war Iraq. Rumsfeld himself should have been fired ages ago for his bungling.

I work at a law firm, and I can assure you that any associate working on a case who failed to prepare for any conceivable contingency would not be an associate for very long. The same holds true for management positions at most companies. And yet we don't hold the Secretary of Defense to the same standards that we hold 25 year-olds fresh out of college???