Healthy disagreements are a sign of strength, not weakness. If the administration was being straight with the American people, then they might have a legit beef with people who criticize their policies. Unfortunately, they have never been straight with us, about anything, and they have unfairly attacked their political opponents. And Rumsfeld is just a total dick who has no regard for whether he causes further division.

Having said all that, I agree that it is not helpful to have everyone *****ing about how the war on terror is going. It would be nice if we could call a domestic truce, where W quits pretending that he has everything under control and his opponents quit *****ing about his incompetence to date and try instead to find a way out of our current pickle. That would be nice.