Posted on 08/15/2007 8:52:20 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Rumsfeld resigned before election, letter shows Wed Aug 15, 2007 11:40AM EDT
By Kristin Roberts
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Rumsfeld, architect of the unpopular Iraq war, resigned as defense secretary before last year's November election but his decision was not announced until after the voting, according to his resignation letter obtained by Reuters on Wednesday.
The letter was dated November 6, the day before voters, angered by Iraq, went to the polls and swept Republicans from power in Congress. According to a stamp on the letter, President George W. Bush saw it on election day.
Bush, however, did not announce that Rumsfeld would leave until the day after the election.
That infuriated some Republicans, who said their party might have kept more seats in Congress and perhaps kept control of the Senate if Rumsfeld had left before the election.
Rumsfeld did not mention the Iraq war in his four-paragraph resignation letter.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
upset because they could have used his resignation as the excuse for loosing their seats...nooooooo couldn’t be they squandered their positions..nooooooooooooo
It’s like W wanted his party to lose both houses. He may have thought it was easier to push the immigration bill through with less republicans. Just my opinion.
Bush can’t win. If he’d revealed this before, the media would have had a circus about Bush “desperate” and “in a panic” trying to swing the election.
Leave it to Reuters to misrepresent Republicans’ loss squarely on Iraq, where it was corruption, cowardness and lack of leadership on Republican side, along with deliberate strategy by Schumer and Emanuel to run as many faux “conservative” “Blue Dog” Democrats as they could in “red” states to squeak out a victory.
Rumsfeld “resigned” several times before but Bush would not accept. To have Rummy spend his last 2 years in Pentagon called to Capitol Hill and subjected to inane and hostile questioning by Democrats hell-bent on political show trials would be a disservice to this great man. Bush had to accept that, Rummy was not “fired” as many, who despise him, have suggested.
Oh THAT Donald Rumsfeld!!
Exactly. If they had announced Rummy’s leaving before the election, then the Dems. would have been out for more blood leading up to election day.
Scary, but I bet you’re right. Hubby agrees.
Those Blue Dogs have not actually worked out 100% to the left wing agenda though.
I soooo agree with your last paragraph. It was so horrible to do to a man of his character and devotion to this Country.
Yeah..I noticed that as well..no bias here at all..
Exactly.
Cute picture of W who is trying to screw us again on the amnesty bill. He and Ted Kennedy became pretty chummy after the 06 elections and the lead up to the amnesty bill.
Uh, yeah. Right. You’re a whackadoodle.
IBCDH (In Before Chucky Demands Hearings)
And your sooo cute with the lil names and pictures.
Well, I never post cute little pictures, and I don’t think I’ve ever called anyone a name on FR, but I will ask you, do you really think that GWB tried to lose in 2006 in order to push through his imigration proposals?
“Donald Rumsfeld, architect of the unpopular Iraq war
Oh THAT Donald Rumsfeld!!”
Hahaha - yeah... took Roooooooters all of two words and a comma to start the bias. Classic.
well i guess this calls for the immediate return of congress to session so they could hold hearings.
if Republicans are smart - now, there is an oxymoron.
More Reuters manure.
Wouldn’t believe them if the said the sky is blue.
As to your tagline... it is not only the powers laughing.
LLS
You really are a dingbat.
LLS
and you a lil man child.
Well, I’m against amnesty for illegals, but I don’t for a moment think that GWB somehow contrived to have the Republicans lose in 2006 in order to push through such legislation.
Not hardly... but I am Conservative, correct, and you ARE NOT!
LLS
Contrived may be too strong of a word in this case.
I’m against amnesty for illegals/ Ditto.
W has to be very happy with the weak leadership he has with Reid and Pelosi. If we had kept control of both houses, the amnesty bill would be dead. It probably would not have made it to the floor to vote on. As you know, the bill is still alive, a little watered down, but still will grant amnesty to millions of illegals.
sorry son I don’t have time to play your lil nitwit name games. i’ll give you the last word and hope it makes you feel better about yourself.
You are such a good little liberal soldier. Soldier on there “son”!
LLS
EXACTLY!!
All one has to do is take the OPPOSITE tack for any decision the President makes and BASH him for it.
I keep going back to the days after 911, when the country wanted the President to do all he could to get the enemy and PREVENT another attack on our soil and to CONNECT THE DOTS to make damn sure Al Qaeda did NOT get WMD with which to hit us the NEXT TIME.
He has accomplished ALL of that, with several attacks being thwarted. For this he has been PUMMELED like no other "wartime" in my lifetime and sadly this bashing is by Republicans and conservatives not only the commie loving, socialist left!!
Donald Rumsfeld
I don’t think for a moment that GWB was happy to lose the Hous e and the Senate so that he could push through legislation on immigration.
?
“It’s like W wanted his party to lose both houses. He may have thought it was easier to push the immigration bill through with less republicans. Just my opinion.”
mine too
That infuriated some Republicans, who said their party might have kept more seats in Congress and perhaps kept control of the Senate if Rumsfeld had left before the election.
If some Republican's thought this.......
But do you think that GWB kept quiet about Rumsfeld so that the Republicans would lose the House and Senate, so that Bush could push through an immigration bill?
NO!
Nice to see the Pentagon and White House display their contempt for FOIA requests over this letter. I believe this is the first time in recent memory that I have lined up on the side of Reuters (or any other news service), but that’s extremely telling that they had to jump through hoops to pry away a piece of public record from the government’s hands. Doesn’t surprise me though.
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