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Rumsfeld is out!
ecthompsonmd November 8, 2006

From CNN.com: President Bush introduced Robert Gates on Wednesday afternoon as his nominee to replace Donald Rumsfeld as secretary of defense, saying the country needs a “fresh perspective” on Iraq. Gates, a former CIA chief, was a member of the Iraq Study Group, a bipartisan panel that is making recommendations to Bush on how to proceed in Iraq. Gates traveled with the panel to Iraq earlier this year, an experience, Bush said, that will enable Gates to come up with “new ideas on how America can achieve our goals in Iraq.”  Gates, 63, said Wednesday he accepted the nomination because “the

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Donald Rumsfeld is the greatest of them all… not
ecthompsonmd April 17, 2006

Let’s review the things that we know are true. For example, we know that we had an opportunity to capture Osama bin Laden in Kabul before the fall of Afghanistan. We did not capture him. We know, that we had an opportunity to kill or capture Osama bin Laden in the Tora Bora mountains. We did not. We had thousands of troops looking for the remnants of the Taliban and Al Qaeda but for reasons that are unclear, we packed up everything and decided to invade Iraq. In my opinion, Donald Rumsfeld should have been fired over the conduct of the

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