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Another take on the Rumsfeld so called firing. I suspect this was agree ahead of time between the President and Rumsfeld.

I suspect you're right.

Still, I will, with the right provided to me by our military who died to defend my right to free speech, state that the TIMING of this announcement was bad, bad, bad.

I also suspect you're right about the hearings and all that but damn, the day AFTER the election? It was just so defeatest.

Can I be the only one in America that consider firing, or terminating or whatever and however it happened, the day after that election was really bad PR? I'm not afraid to be wrong here. But I do know how it affected ME.

The President may not have seen it as defeatist but more a message to Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid as you are not having it all your own way the butt of your attack is not longer going to be there.

You can attack him and his policies but he is no longer Secretary of Defense or will not be probably before you come to power.

I see it as an attack not the reverse.

What time would have been a "good time"?

IMHO Rummy took it upon himself to resign.

The reasoning being that if he stayed...which he should have...that the Libtards would make him their whipping boy in an effort to embarrass the President.

I think if the Republicans had held on to even the House, Rummy would still be there.

#268, it did not bother me like it did you, because I felt that Rummy had accomplished most of what he was hired to do. His main Job before 9-11 was to change the horribly bloated, inefficient,costly, Lobbyist heavy, Top Heavy Defense Department. It is a shame he only had a short time before 9-11 interrupted the Huge Plan. Obviously some of those Major players in that Bloated Bureaucracy saw the writing on the wall and either left or turned leakers to stir up trouble. They are worse than the Enemy, they are the enemy within, and typical of those that stayed and profited by the Clinton Presidency. They had their own paychecks, Promotions in mind, not the safety of our citizens either here or in the rest of the World. They are probably not even ashamed, and some of them are still there waiting to leak more info to the DBM. John Murtha would not have been able to flim flam, scam, connive, and screw the Taxpayers over, lining his pockets, and various criminal cohorts if the Pentagon had been run by Rumsfeld many years ago. I worked at the Pentagon in 1967 and 1968, and it should have been Overhauled way back then. I think Rummy was more than ready to leave, and like a real man does, he picked the time and place. Now that Rummy is gone, part of the over-reaching of the Rats and the DBM will be tempered, and if the Rats get really bad/over the top as is their normal behavior in any hearings they will look more anti-Military than they already do.

But I do know how it affected ME.

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And you are one voter among millions.

Another perspective since you claim an expertise in PR -
Instead of wall-to-wall media coverage the day after the election being a hymn of praise to Nancy, Harry, Howard, etc they had to sit in the East Room and shine their TV cameras on the President of the United States. I think it was a brillian move.