Grace under fire / Petition for Rumsfeld

Rumsfeld, I mean. The words below are his. I just had to post them here. Thanks to Watcher for taking the time to transcribe it.

"Some people did some perfectly terrible things. What happened after that? We announced it. It became public. We're having an open process. We've been prosecuting the people who have done something wrong. The world is seeing what a democracy does. The world is seeing how people who care about human rights behave. This isn't a pattern or practice or policy of the government as it was under Saddam Hussein... this is something totally different. And how do we always get from one step to the next step? We live our lives as best we can, knowing we're imperfect, mistakes get made, people do bad things to people. We see it in every state of the union, every year... murders, rapes. How do we restore our credibility? What we do is, we get up the next day and try to live our lives better... and we try to do a better job in government and public service. And over time, the truth wins out. We have a free, open system. We've got some wonderful people in this country. We're not an evil society. There's not something bad about America... America is not what's wrong with the world! The overwhelming majority of the people in the world know that. I mean, why do people line up to get into this country year after year after year? I read all this stuff -- people hate us, people don't like us -- the fact of the matter is, people line up to come into this country every year. Because it's better here than other places... and because they respect the fact that we respect human beings. And, we'll get by this... I don't like it any more than you do."

Some people seem to think that Rummy should no longer be a part of the government. If you disagree, like I do, sign the petition.