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 Post subject: looks like rumsfeld is finally gone
PostPosted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 4:09 pm 
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too soon to get a story on it yet, but check out the cnn front page.


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Wow.
Not that everybody didn't see it coming, but the fact that it is actually happening is just pretty strange.

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WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, a key target of Iraq war critics, is stepping down, Republican officials said on Wednesday.

This breaking news story will be updated.


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When it rains...
Any other heads going to roll?

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I fully expect Bush to make him a "consultant."

But this is good news.


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Jeb/Rummy in '08!


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na-na-na-na.......

goodbye rummy

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I just let out an audible snort.
Hope nobody heard that.

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The next obvious move is for Rick Rubin to produce an album for him and will.i.am remix the single.


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Gwen Stefani's "Wind It Up" played on my Launchcast station while I was reading about Rummy. Don't know what that means, but it was funny at the time.


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i can't believe he would cut and run on the troops like that


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Is Bush back on the coke??? He's used several three syllable words in his press conference and he's joking with reporters about things he would have yelled at them about a couple of days ago.

Plus there's the sweating and caged-animal jitters going on there.

And the look of panic and unravelling.


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Amazing. They were just saying a half hour ago on Air America that Bush had a "significant" announcement to make. They were all in agreement that there was no way this was about Rumsfeld.


Typical timing. They wanted to steal the thunder from the Dems.


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they can steal all the publicity from the dems they want as long as they keep firing people.


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they can steal all the publicity from the dems they want as long as they keep firing people.


If Bush had canned Rummy three months ago, the Republicans might have done a little better yesterday... So I can't really complain about his timing.


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I say both he and Bush can regain some popularity and credibility in their post-politics days by doing something really unexpected and classy, like doing a really stupid buddy movie together a la Harold and Kumar called "Rum and Bush".

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heres a story on it

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A change at the Pentagon


WASHINGTON: Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld stepped down as defense secretary on Wednesday, one day after congressional elections in which opposition to the war in Iraq contributed to heavy Republican party losses.

President George W. Bush said he would nominate Robert Gates, a former CIA director, to replace Rumsfeld at the Pentagon.

Asked whether his announcement signalled a new direction in the war that has claimed the lives of more than 2,800 U.S. troops and thousands of Iraqis, Bush said, "Well, there's certainly going to be new leadership at the Pentagon."

Bush lavished praise on Rumsfeld, who has spent six stormy years at the Pentagon. He disclosed he met with Gates last Sunday, two days before elections in which Democrats swept to control of the House of Representatives and possibly the Senate.

Last week, as he campaigned to save the Republican majority, Bush declared that Rumsfeld would remain at the Pentagon through the end of his term.

Rumsfeld, 74, was in his second tour of duty as defense chief. He first held the job a generation ago, when he was appointed by President Ford.

Gates is the president of Texas A&M University and a close friend of the Bush family. He served as director of the Central Intelligence for Bush's father from 1991 until 1993.

Gates first joined the CIA in 1966 and served in the intelligence community for more than a quarter century, under six presidents.

His nomination must be confirmed by the Senate.

Whatever confidence Bush retained in Rumsfeld, the Cabinet officer's support in Congress had eroded significantly. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the House speaker-in-waiting, said at her first post-election news conference that Bush should replace the top civilian leadership at the Pentagon.

And Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who had intervened in the past to shore up Rumsfeld, issued a statement saying, "Washington must now work together in a bipartisan way - Republicans and Democrats - to outline the path to success in Iraq."


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"Rum and Bush".


:lol: That sounds like last Saturday night! (minus the bush part) :wink:


Between the Dems getting the House and maybe the Senate and then this, I'm convinced this is all an amazing dream I'll wake up from any minute now.

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Is Bush back on the coke??? He's used several three syllable words in his press conference and he's joking with reporters about things he would have yelled at them about a couple of days ago.

Plus there's the sweating and caged-animal jitters going on there.

And the look of panic and unravelling.


That conference was pretty funny. He really did look nervous as all hell. He kept getting obviously frustrated by the changes taking place and the questions being asked, he would start pursing his lips and try to form sentences and couldn't.

I love how that one reporter had to make sure he really said "thumpin" without a "g". Nice. That will be all over the papers tomorrow I'm sure.

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It was fun listening to Limbaugh today....I wonder how many OxyContin
pills it took to drown his sorrow.

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Guess the admin decided to lump all the embarrassing concessions into one horse-sized pill.

Having said that, I wonder how long this has seriously been on the table. As we're going through the worst period in some time in Iraq as far as American casualties, what, we're coasting until after election day to make a change at the defense dept.? That's shitty.


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Guess the admin decided to lump all the embarrassing concessions into one horse-sized pill.

Having said that, I wonder how long this has seriously been on the table. As we're going through the worst period in some time in Iraq as far as American casualties, what, we're coasting until after election day to make a change at the defense dept.? That's shitty.


apparetly Rummy tried to resign two times before but Bush denied it.


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