After watching the Sunday shows, I really feel obligated to offer a bit of free communications advice to the folks who are out there trying to defend Secretary Rumsfeld this morning: It's fine to say that he shouldn't be fired because he's won two wars. And it's equally fine to say he shouldn't be fired because we're in the middle of two wars. But when you say both at the same time, you just sound dumb as dogsh -- excuse me -- you almost sound as if you don't realize that you're making mutually exclusive arguments. So cut it out.

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