“Former Army secretary Thomas White said in an interview that senior Defense officials ‘are unwilling to come to grips’ with the scale of the postwar U.S. obligation in Iraq.” That’s from an interview with former Army Secretary Tom White, which appears today in USA Today. Rumsfeld had wanted to fire White for months, but his unwillingness to toe the line on Iraq and troop strength issues was certainly a trigger for his defenestration last month.