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Edited on Thu Nov-09-06 08:39 PM by Phoebe Loosinhouse
he says about anything. I mean that literally. If he believed Rumsfeld was doing a great job, as he stated, then he should have kept him. He said he didn't want to dump him in a way that would seem "political" (as in before the election)and yet he dumped him in the way that is the MOST political (after the election when the results say he is a liability)
If HE didn't think Rummie was doing a good job, he would have dumped him long ago. Therefore, I believe that Bush felt that Rummie was doing a good job but dumped him all the same -probably on the advice of James Baker. Rummie's resignation goes right up there with all the most !@#$ed things he's done. Just badly, badly done. I think he betrayed Rummie, his conscience, and the electorate he lied to as he assured them Rummie would be there as long as he was.
Now, I think the key is, he himself just did not personally have an understanding of how badly Rummie had !@#$ed up until someone took him aside and very gently laid out all the screw-ups for him, but told him he had missed the moment when it might have made a difference and had to wait for the moment when it would just be lost in the shuffle of all the bad news at once.
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