The Daily Background

President Bush bragged about the supposedly wonderful economy in run-up to the November 7th elections. Bush and other Republicans were hoping that the economy would work well for Republicans as a campaign issue. A CNN exit poll indicated that:

Among voters who said the economy was “very important” in determining their vote, more voters chose the […]

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Over Donald Rumsfeld’s time as Secretary of Defense from 2001 to the present, many notable figures have called for his resignation. Whether it’s over Iraq, his handling of Iraq, his misleading rhetoric and outright lies on Iraq, his failed strategy in Iraq, his lack of a strategy in Iraq, his “it could take a few […]

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My buddy Jason Leopold has written a good background piece on Robert Gates, the President’s nominee to replace outgoing Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

In 1989, he was appointed deputy director of the National Security Council and in 1991, when the first Bush administration was in office, he was named director of the spy shop.
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Unconfirmed as of yet… Updates soon, refresh page… President to announce at 1 o’clock EST… Iraq change rumored… ABC News confirms CNN report…. Rumsfeld said to be afraid of Iraq hearings… Obvious connection to elections…
Update: Bush presser- says he will work with Dems to find ‘common ground’ in next two years… Bob Gates, former CIA […]

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E&P:

An editorial set to appear on Monday — election eve — in the four leading newspapers for the military calls for the resignation of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
The papers are the Army Times, Air Force Times, Navy Times and Marine Corps Times. They are published by the Military Times Media Group, a subsidiary of […]

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Three retired military commanders (two Generals and one Colonel, I think) say in so many words on CNN’s Lou Dobbs program that they’ll be voting Democratic this year. They also say that Rumsfeld must go. They’re already on our big “Rumsfeld Resign!” list.

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The three stooges will not be separated:

President Bush said Wednesday he wants Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Vice President
Dick Cheney to remain with him until the end of his presidency, extending a job guarantee to two of the most-vilified members of his administration.
“Both those men are doing fantastic jobs and I strongly support them,” Bush […]

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I kind of love Jack Cafferty.

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Another Republican calls for Donald Rumsfeld’s resignation as Secretary of Defense:

Louisville, Kentucky. - A Republican locked in a tight congressional race with a harsh critic of the
Iraq war said Wednesday that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld should be replaced.
Rep. Anne Northup, a five-term incumbent, also called for a change of course in Iraq, a stark […]

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A CNN/OPR poll released today but conducted in late September reveals that a plurality of Americans think Donald Rumsfeld ought to resign.
According to the poll, 47% of Americans want the Secretary of Defense to resign over the Iraq war, while 43% disagree. In addition, the poll found that the SecDef’s approval rating sits at only […]

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So apparently now I’m adding former White House Chief of staff Andrew Card to our gigantic Rumsfeld Resign list. Wow, didn’t see that one coming. And this was done in secret back in 2004 and 2005 too.

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Earlier today at Democratic oversight hearing:

… retired Maj. Gen. John R.S. Batiste, who commanded the 1st Infantry Division in Iraq in 2004 and 2005 and served as a senior military assistant to former deputy defense secretary Paul Wolfowitz, charged that Rumsfeld and others in the Bush administration “did not tell the American people the truth […]

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Have you read about this yet? Reportedly (and this is according to a Brigadier General) Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld wouldn’t allow the Pentagon to formulate proper plans for post-war Iraq. Check this out:

Long before the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld forbade military strategists to develop plans for securing a […]

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I have now begun a series of posts in which I respond to right-wingers on various subjects. Some of these responses will be to stupid arguments that the right-wing and conservatives like to use very often, others will be responses to tremendously stupid anomoly arguments that somebody on the other side of the internet thought […]

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From the holy crap department:

Gen. Batiste: Rumsfeld ‘Served Up Our Great Military A Huge Bowl of Chicken Feces’

Video included in link. I’m totally adding this to our big fat Rumsfeld resign list.

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