My headline would've read: "Planet fortunate to be rid of one of the preeminent pro-war propagandists of the 20th century." And the lead paragraph might somewhere say: "Rummy may be gone, but the unmitigated arrogance that drove the a-hole to convolute the language into glittering vacuities to support his maniacal homicidal urges lives on" — as you so clearly elaborate in this great piece. My only regret is viewing the image of his smiling face, which reflexively provokes such a profound rage in my gut that I feel physically ill. The countenances of the smiling chimp, Dubya, and his overseer, Dick Cheney the heartless (transplants notwithstanding) contributed to that physical revulsion. That America spawns and worships such sociopaths is an accurate measure of our depraved condition.