Rumsfeld Needs to Be Replaced

Close observers of the Bush Administration have felt for some time that it is long past the day that Rumsfeld should be leaving. Not only is the man incompetent, but he seems to be growing increasingly delusional as reported by Think Progress:

Newsweek editor Fareed Zakaria ripped into Donald Rumsfeld this morning on ABC’s This Week.

Transcript:

[If I were running against conservatives,] I would make up a campaign commercial almost entirely of Donald Rumsfeld’s press conferences, because the man is looking — I mean, it’s not just that he seems like a bad Secretary of [Defense]. He seems literally in a parallel universe and slightly deranged. If you listen to what he said last week about Iraq, he’s living in a different world, not a different country.

There is nothing more embarrassing, or dangerous, than an incompetent official clinging to his job.

Fareed Zakaria is the kind of journalist with inside information. It's possible there's more to this story than meets the eye.