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Your ignorance of reality is appalling. He wanted to leave. Bush did not want him to go. However after Tues vote of No Confidence from the American people some one had to the the sacrificial goat. Rummy even said they merely timed it for AFTER the election so it was not perceived as playing politics with the appointment. So win win. Bush needs a goat, Rummy wants to leave. Dems lose one Bushy they wanted to conduct a Congressional Show trial on.

As for the Congresscritters Bush spent all October running around endlessly for them. Raised $193 MILLION for Republicans the last two year. The most successful political fund raiser in history.

You know the real irony of all this is? The Dems do not have to do anything but wait. Keep the Junk Media occupied with show trials of Bush people in Congressional hearings plus a couple of bruising political fights over big glittery handout social spending emotionally appealing items like "Federal Funding for Stem cells" or "Global Warming" and let the Bush plan finish it's course in Iraq.

Oh they probably will make some cosmetic changes along the way. Their new calls to "hold an International Conference on Iraq" is a perfect example of a do nothing worth while at all time wasting maneuver. Then late 2007-2008 scream victory was caused by them as soon as any troops start coming home.

Bush and Rummy won the War for them. Now Old Boy Washington will have two years to revenge itself on him for his being right in 2003 and most of them being dead wrong. The joker in the deck here is if the Democrats can sit on their moonbats long enough to NOT screw it up and snatch defeat from the jaws of victory

The "Realists" should try reading the data on Iraq instead of clinging to their "Realists" Bush hater ideology dogmas. It is rather interesting.

http://icasualties.org/oif/

http://icasualties.org/oif/IraqiDeaths.aspx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_Security_Forces

I've convinced myself that Rumsfeld initiated the idea of resignation and President Bush...in a show of friendship and dedication they conspired to announce it 24 hours after the election.

Rumsfeld is now off the table. The Democrats can go to hell.

It now falls on the Democrats to decide if they meant what they said and redeploy, er...cut and run like they did in Vietnam.

I doubt very much if they will cut off funding and serve up a softball for the GOP going into the 2008 campaign.

President Bush is one helleva poker player isn't he?

The President defended Rumsfeld all the time! Rumsfeld had offered to resign several times, but the President rejected it every time. I believe this time Rumsfeld realized that he couldn't do his job as SecDef while up on the Hill answering stupid questions from Democrat-led witch hunts, so he decided to encourage the President to get someone else at the helm so that the heat would be off the President, and someone else could get in place to do the job.

I don't understand your comment about the President not supporting Congressmen. He travelled all over this country over the last few weeks, doing at least two rallies every day. You may not have heard about them on the news, but that's not surprising. He worked like heck for them, but since Republicans in Congress have had a lower approval rating than the President for the last year, it's not surprising so many of them lost.