I just saw a tape of Rummy on stage today, and his hands are twitching. Really weird. I wonder if something is wrong with him…..well…..I mean besides being an amoral, self serving, incompetent asshole.

WASHINGTON, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Outgoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, a lightning rod for critics of the Iraq war, urged the United States on Friday not to retreat in the face of “the agonies and ugliness of combat.”

At a farewell ceremony for Rumsfeld on the grounds of the Pentagon, President George W. Bush heaped praise on him, while Vice President Dick Cheney called him the best defense secretary the United States ever had.

Bush announced last month that Rumsfeld would be replaced by former CIA chief Robert Gates after the president’s Republicans lost control of Congress, in large part due to voter anger over the Iraq war. Gates takes office on Monday.

“It may well be comforting to some to consider graceful exits from the agonies and, indeed, the ugliness of combat. But the enemy thinks differently,” Rumsfeld said at the ceremony, which featured a military parade and brass-band music.

Although he did not mention Iraq in that portion of his speech, his remarks were likely to be seen as a swipe at those calling for a swift withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq.

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