Rumsfeld's last gasp

The NYTimes has an article on an Iraq strategy memo Rumsfeld submitted to the White House after Gates had been interviewed but before the president decided that Rumsfeld had resigned. (Can't we do away with that nicety? He was fired, damnit.)

Reading the memo itself, what struck me was the scattershot suggestions, some of which contradicted others. It really reads like he had no idea how to proceed, but felt he needed to say something to try and save his job.

(And let's remember that this tower of efficacy was kept in his position for months out of mid-term political considerations.)

Good riddance.