I, too, suspect that this has to do with health reasons or other major personal reasons.
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I'm in the badeye camp, he is resigning to head off the 9/11 commission report.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that had this thought. I think President Bush truly likes this man. Fox showed a clip of a previous event where President Bush grabs him by the neck and gives him the guy hug and both are kind of laughing. You know, kind of a manly one, don't want to get too mushy.
I guess folks can find good and bad in everyone's life and we still haven't ruled out the WMD are not in Syria or elsewhere.
Only time will tell what the true story is, maybe it's just what he said. I think most of the intel jobs are thankless ones and you're the goat when something happens. Thankfully for us there are those who are willing to serve to protect us as best as they can.
Rumsfeld said the terrorists only have to be right once, we have to be right 100% of the time.