A man who should be dancing at the end of a rope

I oppose the death penalty, but there are people who challenge my commitment to that principle, and Donald Rumsfeld is one of them. He was on the Daily Show, and I had to watch that evil man with clenched teeth and clenched fists. Here's part of the interview; the rest is available on Salon.

He shouldn't be on the Daily Show. He should be facing the people of Iraq, and then we'd see how persuasive his folksy chortling would be.

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