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Bush Says Rumsfeld Is Stepping Down
WaPo ^
| 11/8/2006
| Staff
Posted on 11/08/2006 10:27:18 AM PST by Dark Skies
WASHINGTON -- President Bush said Wednesday Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld is stepping down and former CIA Director Robert Gates will take over at the Pentagon and in prosecuting the war in Iraq.
Rumsfeld, architect of an unpopular war in Iraq, intends to resign after six stormy years at the Pentagon, Republican officials said.
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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bobgates; buckupfreepers; bushsfault; cutandrun; donrumsfeld; robertgates; rummygone; thrownunderbus
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To: BibChr
I should have posted a barf alert for that statement.
I think the war has been a great success for everyone but the extreme left...and Saddam and family.
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posted on
11/08/2006 10:58:05 AM PST
by
Dark Skies
("He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that" ... John Stuart Mill)
To: Dark Skies
Wouldn't you do this BEFORE the election? Timing people, timing.
To: bybybill
Rummy is a great American.Yup, but a rotten wartime SECDEF!
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posted on
11/08/2006 10:58:30 AM PST
by
meandog
(While Bush will never fill them, Clinton isn't fit to even lick the soles of Reagan's shoes!)
To: MNJohnnie
"Oh what joy. The Neo Isolationists of Bush 1 are back. We just surrender the War on Islamic Facism."
Well based on Rummy's "success" in Iraq....if he had been the head of a corporation, he would have had his walking papers a long time ago. The truth hurts sometimes. You can't impose "democracy" on 12th century savages. Especially with less than half of the troops needed to occupy the country.
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posted on
11/08/2006 10:58:45 AM PST
by
taxed2death
(A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
To: Dark Skies
I love GW Bush, but I completely fail to see how handing the Democrats another victory scalp will assist things. Do you think it will stop? Do you think the Democrat beast and their MSM companion will ever be satiated? Nope. We are caving fast.
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posted on
11/08/2006 10:59:47 AM PST
by
Obadiah
To: Dark Skies
The brilliant Rumsfeld, so strong and reassuring a presence in the days immediately after 911, got lost somewhere between his military philosophy (hi-tech, fewer boots) and what was happening on the ground in Iraq. It seemed every negative development in the war zone was downplayed, evey call for a change in strategy effectively ignored.
Flexibiliy was supposed to be a hallmark of Rumsfeld's new military, but it seems his own personal inflexibility is what doomed him.
I'll always admire him, and curse his critics more than I'd ever curse him, but as one of the primary architects of the badly mismanaged War in Iraq, it's fitting he should walk the plank.
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posted on
11/08/2006 11:00:05 AM PST
by
beckett
(Amor Fati)
To: Dark Skies
The election has not been certified, and not Bush caves and begins a democrat agenda. Rumsfeld is the first sacrificed. War crimes next. I expect there will be a call for Cheney to resign. I predict that he will, but for crass political reasons...to groom a moderate, liberal, Rockefeller Republican for the next election.
It begins today with the President of the United States rolling over for the democrats. I am dissappointed.
To: George W. Bush
"Given their situation with their new Dims, they may be forced to increase funding and troop levels to Iraq. In fact, I think it's likely."
I hope you're right. But Rumsfeld leaving at this juncture is not going to do much for troop morale. It's not doing a whole lot for mine, either.
Carolyn
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posted on
11/08/2006 11:00:48 AM PST
by
CDHart
("It's too late to work within the system and too early to shoot the b@#$%^&s."--Claire Wolfe)
To: doorma
For us, the freed Iraqis, and anyone yearning for peace and freedom in that region.
Totally serious.
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posted on
11/08/2006 11:01:00 AM PST
by
BibChr
("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
To: meandog
I'm really getting sick of you.
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posted on
11/08/2006 11:01:07 AM PST
by
HelloooClareece
("We make war that we may live in peace". Aristotle)
To: NotchJohnson
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posted on
11/08/2006 11:01:20 AM PST
by
RangerM
($1.50 + 7% tax is not $1.61. I want my half-cent back. How much extra do we pay each year?)
To: lesko
"This is better than Earth Day and United Nations Day combined. Oh joy!"
Don't forget Kwanza and Ramadan.
To: DonaldC
I am not worrying about impeachment.
Neither am I. The Democrats know the Republicans don't have the balls to fight them so there will be a ton of resignations before it reaches impeachment. Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Teddy Kennedy, Hillary Clinton and John Kerry are busy "re-stocking" Bush's cabinet. Sooner or later, they'll get to Bush too, no matter how many people he tosses overboard.
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posted on
11/08/2006 11:01:46 AM PST
by
penowa
To: The Iceman Cometh
Over My Dead Body!!!!!! Hahahaaa
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posted on
11/08/2006 11:02:45 AM PST
by
007girl
To: All
To all you losers who want to attack Bush and/or Rumsfield because you didn't get your way in yesterdays election,
GROW UP!
If any of you has accomplished a fraction of what eather of these two have accomplished for our country, I take it back.
To: taxed2death
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posted on
11/08/2006 11:03:12 AM PST
by
MNJohnnie
(The Democrat Party: Hard on Taxpayers, Soft on Terrorism!)
To: redgirlinabluestate
"Mommy is it ok to lie?".."Well Johnny it's just a little white lie about The Sec of Defence being fired because Daddy does'nt want to try and not look too political". Awful just awful for him to say that. John Conyers is drawing up the Articles of Impeachment right now. This is gonna be fun the next few months until Nancy Pelosi and the village idiots start farking up the country because they can't help themselves. Man listening to Rush I can gurantee El Rushbo won't be invited to the Whitehouse anytime soon.
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posted on
11/08/2006 11:03:30 AM PST
by
lwg8tr
To: meandog
IIRC, Rumsfeld offered his resignation back in 2004. Recently reelected President Bush refused it.
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posted on
11/08/2006 11:03:31 AM PST
by
auboy
To: Dark Skies
What I'd like to know is exactly what role is JIM BAKER now playing in this administration?
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posted on
11/08/2006 11:04:23 AM PST
by
Obadiah
To: moonman
The neocons cost Republicans congress and may result in the Democrats winning the Presidency. One more should be dumped -- Cheney should step down.
Any more than that would be viewed as a rout.
We've two years to salvage what's left and elect a Republican, a real Goldwater type conservative. Are there any? Or are we faced with only neocons and RINO's?
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posted on
11/08/2006 11:05:57 AM PST
by
Solitar
("My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them." -- Barry Goldwater)
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