Zarqawi and bin Laden and Zawahiri: media committees

* clemons: "The President should give Rumsfeld a big party, a medal or two, and send him off -- with a successor who will re-establish confidence in defense decision-making.
The President should dust off his MBA work and realize that if he wants to send a signal of change, he must dump at least three of five people: his chief of staff, his vice president, his closest political advisor, his national security advisor, and his defense secretary.
So far, Andy Card is gone. To fill out the "I'm a new and different Bush" card, Bush must distance himself from some combination of Rove, Hadley, Cheney, and/or Rumsfeld."

* whistleblower blacklisted. boooooooooooooo. (link)

* rumsfled: "I think we just have to accept it, that people have a right to say what they want to say, and to have an acceptance of that and recognize that the terrorists, Zarqawi and bin Laden and Zawahiri, those people have media committees."