* Henley:
"Someone in the administration must really hate Cambone, though, because they put the “spend more time with his family” line in the resignation statement."
* nyt:
"Two days before he resigned as defense secretary, Donald H. Rumsfeld submitted a classified memo to the White House that acknowledged that the Bush administration’s strategy in Iraq was not working and called for a major course correction.
“In my view it is time for a major adjustment,” wrote Mr. Rumsfeld, who has been a symbol of a dogged stay-the-course policy. “Clearly, what U.S. forces are currently doing in Iraq is not working well enough or fast enough.”
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Mr. Rumsfeld’s memo suggests frustration with the pace of turning over responsibility to the Iraqi authorities; in fact, the memo calls for examination of ideas that roughly parallel troop withdrawal proposals presented by some of the White House’s sharpest Democratic critics."
* TimesOnline has a great overview of the p210 story. Larisa's take on it here. (pssst - it's Larisa's birthday on Thursday)
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So, apparently, the minute Rumsfeld removed his head from his ass is when Bush decided that Rummy could no longer be a part of his administration.
Well, at least we know that SOME people never change.
tas - i wonder if Rummy wrote the memo BECAUSE he knew he was going
luke--
I agree. When I first heard this story, I thought "that's a cya memo, if I've ever heard of one." We know that the weekend before the elections bush was meeting with Gates, so I think Rummy knew he was a goner. So, he had this memo drawn up and leaked to give him cover.
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