Oopsie, and not to get too far off the original topic, here's yet another reason to not hate all Americans.
I lifted this off
Teresa Nielsen Hayden's blog (an editor for Tor Books):
"Rumsfeld won’t resign, and Bush won’t sack him.
"I believe this is the first time I’ve seen George miss an opportunity to distance himself from failure and blame. The atrocities at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere will still have happened on his watch, so he’ll still have ultimate responsibility—hey, that’s what it means when you take on a command position—but firing Rumsfeld would at least have given him a cut-out, a figleaf’s worth of cover. It’s the minimum price for having anyone believe his apologies.
"But no. He means to keep Rumsfeld, and so necessarily endorses him; which means the blame flows straight up through Rumsfeld and attaches to Bush. That’s so unlike him. All these times, we’ve watched him dodge responsibility; yet now, when the charges are so foul that any sane man would want to distance himself from, Bush is right in there saying 'Bring it on.'
"This pretty much nails down his title as the worst President in American History, except for the matter of his not having been legitimately elected. I don’t know. Maybe this will be a trick question in future presidential trivia quizzes:
'Worst President ever?'
'That’s easy! —George W. Bush.'
'Nuh-uh.'
'Is so.'
'Is not, it’s James Buchanan.'
'What?'
'Got you! Bush was never elected. He was acting chief executive, or something.'
'Jeez, what a rip.'
Like that."
Well said.