Nbadan
08-15-2007, 02:25 PM
Turns out the architect of the Iraqi fiasco might have spared a few Republican senators and Congress-people their jobs in 06 if the administration would have announced that he had already resigned...
WASHINGTON, Aug 15 (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 Nov. 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.
Alertnet (http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N15245057.htm)
Yet the few Republican Senators and Legislators in Congress that are left continue to be lap-dogs to the administration. Texas Senators Cornyn and Hutchingson are the worst....
WASHINGTON, Aug 15 (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 Nov. 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.
Alertnet (http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N15245057.htm)
Yet the few Republican Senators and Legislators in Congress that are left continue to be lap-dogs to the administration. Texas Senators Cornyn and Hutchingson are the worst....