在国防部长拉姆斯菲尔德接受布什的“邀请”留任后不久,美国国内要求拉氏下台的声音却日益高涨。如果这些反对派都来自民主党,布什政府还可用“搞党派政治”的措辞来轻松平息事端,但不同寻常的是,此次表态反对拉氏的不仅有麦凯恩和哈格尔这样的共和党资深参议员,甚至包括新保守派的首要理论家、新保守主义喉舌《旗帜周刊》的主编威廉·克里斯托。后者在《华盛顿邮报》上撰文,直言不讳地对拉姆斯菲尔德说,“如果你既不能准确判断形势,又傲慢自大,敷衍了事,不如早点离开。” Shortly after Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld accepted Bush’s “invitation,” his voice in the United States demanding his resignation is on the rise. If all these opposition parties came from Democrats, the Bush administration could easily ease the incident by using the phrase “political party politics.” What is unusual, however, is that not only did McCain and Hagle, who opposed Launch, Republican senior senators, including even the most important neo-theorist theorist, the neo-conservative mouthpiece “Flag Weekly” editor William Cristo. The latter wrote an article in The Washington Post, outspokenly, to Rumsfeld, “If you can not judge the situation accurately, you are arrogant and perfunctory, you should leave early.”