Rummy's talking about WWII ...

OK, let’s take a look at WWII ... the war we won.

I. The president was a Democrat: Franklin Delano Roosevelt or FDR

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt

“In July 1941, Roosevelt ordered Secretary of War Henry Stimson to begin planning for total American military involvement. The resulting “Victory Program,” under the direction of Albert Wedemeyer, provided the President with the estimates necessary for the total mobilization of manpower, industry, and logistics to defeat the “potential enemies” of the United States.”

II. FDR selected General George Marshall to lead the military into war—a war we won, by the way:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Marshall

“On September 1 1939, the very start of World War II in Europe, he was selected by Franklin D. Roosevelt to be Army Chief of Staff, a position he held until 1945. In 1944, became the first U.S. General to be awarded 5-star rank, otherwise known as General of the Army. This position is the American equivalent in rank to Field Marshal. Marshall once joked that he was glad the U.S. never created a ‘Field Marshal’ rank during World War II, since he would then have to be addressed as ‘Marshal Marshall’.

“During World War II, Marshall was instrumental in getting the U.S. Army and Army Air Corps reorganized and ready for combat. Marshall wrote the document that would become the central strategy for all Allied operations in Europe, selected Dwight Eisenhower as Supreme Commander in Europe, and designed Operation Overlord, the invasion of Normandy.”

III. Harry S. Truman as a Senator (another Democrat) made sure we got a bang for our taxpayers buck—in the war we won (but I repeat myself shamelessly):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S._Truman#Truman_Co mmittee

“He gained fame and respect when his preparedness committee (popularly known as the ‘Truman Committee’ ) investigated the scandal of military wastefulness by exposing fraud and mismanagement. His advocacy of common-sense cost-saving measures for the military attracted much attention. Although some feared the Committee would hurt war morale, it was considered a success and is reported to have saved at least $11 billion.”

The problem with the Bush Adminsitration is that they think competence is loyalty to them. And the Republican Party is still the party for what big business wants and opposed to what we the people need.

I wish they would have run this war like WWII ... maybe we’d be winning. Selecting competent generals to fight the war and having strong oversight to eliminate egregious fraud would have made a HUGE difference ... don’t you think? That is, if we were fighting the right enemy—in the first place.