MSNBC/AP Bulletin: Rumsfeld Steps Down

MSNBC/AP | 11.8.06

[mhking]

This is just crossing my desk now; nothing follows yet. According to some sources this is the subject of the noon presser.

[dirtboy]

And you think the Dems will pay for it when the Repubs would not?

Yes, I think the Dems will be desperate to prove they are not soft on national security.

[rwfromkansas]

If it was last week, but not a month ago or so.

[epluribus_2]

The rats were going to demand it anyway and if they did and Bush submitted - then the public would have a field day with how much power the rats would be yielding. This is a tactical denial of territory.

[Petronski]

The American people collectively spit on our troops last night.......

Like hell.

A majority of those who voted did.

[HitmanLV]

Get all the junk out at once. The electorate repudiated the current course in Iraq, whether we like it or not. rummy is the poster boy for that. He was rejected. He's gone. Bunch in as much of the crap in the next few days so we can get past it.

[relee]

John Kerry???

No!

[MAD-AS-HELL]

If that is who publishes the Army Times, then yes.

[Irish Eyes]

Bob (Robert) Gates, former CIA, is new SecDef per Bret Bair, FoxNews.

I know nothing about him, anyone??

[maineman]

JC! Bush giving in right out of the gate.

Rummy is the scapegoat

Hey, why not repeal the tax cuts while were at it.

[thelastvirgil]

Maybe Dubya can make it a twofer. This is the absolute wrong move. Any RAT investigations into Rumsfeld would have helped to cement, in the minds of the mindless, just what a screw-up it was to give these ba$tard$ the majority.

[TomGuy]

Robert M. Gates, Director of Central Intelligence, 1991-1993.

Dr. Robert Michael Gates (born September 25, 1943) is the 22nd and current United States Secretary of Defense. His term of office began Novermber 8th, 2006 under President George W. Bush. Previous to that office, he served as Director of Central Intelligence from November 6, 1991 until January 20, 1993, capping a 26-year career in the CIA and the National Security Council. Immediately before being named as Secretary of Defense, he was the President of Texas A&M University and the National President of the National Eagle Scout Association. He and his wife Becky have two children. He has currently been nominated to replace Donald Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense in November 2006.

More at wikipedia

[I want to know]

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

[Mo1]

I'm worried about the WOT, the Terrorists and all the Civil Rights the Dems will give them

[rwfromkansas]

Bush didn't. Rumsfeld did.

[Route66]

Dr. Robert Michael Gates (born September 25, 1943) served as Director of Central Intelligence from November 6, 1991 until January 20, 1993, capping a 26-year career in the CIA and the National Security Council. He is currently the President of Texas A&M University and the National President of the National Eagle Scout Association. He and his wife Becky have two children

[Coop]

There seems to be a real fear among alot of people we are headed toward another Vietnam.

And for that you may thank Jack Murtha, John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi, Howard Dean, virtually the entire planet... but not President Bush or Sec. Rumsfeld.

[nutmeg]

Perhaps Bush could make Lieberman the Sec of Defense... then Repub. Gov. Jodi Rell appoints a new GOP senator? Wishful thinking...

[SE Mom]

I'm in shock- but willing to see if this is POTENTIALLY a good thing.

Rummy has served his country with honor..

[freeperfromnj]

Has Zawahiri weighted in yet?

[Palladin]

Nothing to get excited about.

This always happens in the last two years of a lame-duck President. The cabinet members drop off one by one to seek lucrative positions in academia or business.

Republican or Democrat...this is a very ordinary sequence of events.