[beyond the sea]

"Whether or not Rumsfeld should have been tossed overboard long ago, he certainly shouldn't have been tossed on Wednesday morning. For one thing, it's a startlingly brazen confirmation of the politicization of the war, and a particularly unworthy one: It's difficult to conceive of any more public diminution of a noble cause than to make its leadership contingent on Lincoln Chafee's Senate seat. The president's firing of Rumsfeld was small and graceless."

This certainly came off poorly.

[OldFriend]

Perhaps Rumsfeld had had more than enough. Spending the next two years being held hostage before various demonrat controlled committees ws not what he signed on for.