Another U. S. Army Shame Under Donald Rumsfeld
You’d think old Don would run out of ways to hurt the Army.
I don’t know just why he’s been so destructive with the Army when, as Secretary of Defense, he has equal opportunities to savage the Air Force, Navy and Marines. But it seems his belligerence and arrogance, his dishonoring and dismembering is reserved in some Machiavellian way for the guys in green. He was a Navy guy, maybe that's it.
From the skewering several weeks ago of a three-star general for having a mistress, the Donald has moved seamlessly to doing the latest bit of Dick Cheney dirty-work by sacking (or allowing to be sacked, let the blood never touch his fingers) Bunnatine Greenhouse.
Who the hell is Bunnatine Greenhouse, one might logically wonder?
Well, Ms. Greenhouse just happens to enjoy the very top rank of civilian government employees, that of the Senior Executive Service. Bunny made the unpardonable error of saying it like it is, criticizing a multibillion dollar no-bid contract given out by the Army. Another…