Posted on 06/07/2006 11:12:57 PM PDT by RWR8189
June 8, 2006 | Former President George H.W. Bush waged a secret campaign over several months early this year to remove Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. The elder Bush went so far as to recruit Rumsfeld's potential replacement, personally asking a retired four-star general if he would accept the position, a reliable source close to the general told me. But the former president's effort failed, apparently rebuffed by the current president. When seven retired generals who had been commanders in Iraq demanded Rumsfeld's resignation in April, the younger Bush leapt to his defense. "I'm the decider and I decide what's best. And what's best is for Don Rumsfeld to remain," he said. His endorsement of Rumsfeld was a rebuke not only to the generals but also to his father.
The elder Bush's intervention was an extraordinary attempt to rescue simultaneously his son, the family legacy and the country. The current president had previously rejected entreaties from party establishment figures to revamp his administration with new appointments. There was no one left to approach him except his father. This effort to pluck George W. from his troubles is the latest episode in a recurrent drama -- from the drunken young man challenging his father to go "mano a mano" on the front lawn of the family home in Kennebunkport, Maine, to the father pulling strings to get the son into the Texas Air National Guard and helping salvage his finances from George W.'s mismanagement of Harken Energy. For the father, parental responsibility never ends. But for the son, rebellion continues. When journalist Bob Woodward asked George W. Bush if he had consulted his father before invading Iraq, he replied, "He is the wrong father to appeal to in terms of strength. There is a higher father that I appeal to."
The former
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going to Blumenthal to find out what the Bush family is thinking is like going to Zarqawi to find out what the Pope is thinking.
Sidney must be hitting the 100 proof now.
Makin' up news. What's new from the left?
Made UP !
Whatchu been smokin or swallowing, Sidney?????
I'm pretty upset at the entire Bush Family right now, but this kind of sillyness can only come from dreams inspired by illicit substances.
Sydni Bloomie?
Of Matt Drudge lawsuit fame?
It irks me that they do this.
Remember that Sidney Blumenthal is a known liar.
He came out of a Grand Jury where he had just given testimony and told bald faced lies to the waiting press.
Your memory is amazing!
What a bunch of bovine excrement. Bush I said from the get-go that his son is his own man and make his own decisions.
No he's not! My inside the beltway source even told me that he heard from a guy who heard from a guy that that's not true! ; )
W is in trouble right now precisely because he is too much like his father--not because he has not heeded his dad's advice. Were W to actually heed the folks who elected him instead of the wise people, he would be in much, much better shape.
BS the elder Bush's intervention would have been seen as a liberal and terrorist victory!
No he's not! My inside the beltway source even told me that he heard from a guy who heard from a guy that that's not true! ; )
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Dan Rather... Mary Mapes... Is that you?
Trouble? The people who are in "trouble" are the democrats.
President Bush is not running for a third term.
Who's Blummie's source, Bob Woodward? Ha! Read this hit piece
for the drivel it is. Bloomie's irrelevent. This is the same old hit piece we heard during the run up to the war, "Bush is struggling with his father's shadow". Barf.
LOL!
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