Sweet, sweet irony

So among Cheney's comments recently about the whole Iraqi prison scandal is that people should leave Donald Rumsfeld, "the best Secretary of Defense this nation has ever had," alone so he can do his job.

Now, the interesting thing is that guess who served as 41's Secretary of Defense." That's right, Dick Cheney. So is he implying that he's being outclassed by Donald Rumsfeld? That's an awfully nice gesture on his part.

As for whether it will be enough to save Rumsfeld, who knows. I suspect that right now the only way for Bush to save face on this situation is for Rumsfeld to resign. Bush politically can't fire him--otherwise he admits the whole thing is a fiasco that he doesn't know how to solve. But Rumsfeld really isn't in a position to quit, either, as he is one of the few people who seems to be able to work with the Shrub. So, it's a lose-lose-lose situation all around. The only thing that works better is if the problem persists for a while. The longer it goes, the more of a pressure cooker it becomes.