Rumsfeld Resigns!!!

[rox63]

Breaking News headline on CNN: http://www.cnn.com/

[ProSense]

1. One question?

What size shoes does Kerry wear? I think a match against the footprint on Rummy's ass is in order!


:woohoo:

[whometense]

4. you got it

:rofl:

[Island Blue]

2. No fucking way????!!!????

THIS IS HUGH!!!11!!!!! And I thought yesterday couldn't get any better!

Thank you Senator Kerry for being among the first to call for this - I'm very tired right now but VERY happy!!!!!

[whometense]

3. whoa.

And Little Lord Pissypants accepted it?

[mloutre]

5. way!

AP's confirmed it, Bush is starting his live presser right now (leading off with a lame & botched attempt at humor, ahem) and you know it's gonna be in there...

w000000t!!!!!


and you know there'll be plenty more where that came from,
Otter

[beachmom]

6. Wonderful news!! There is finally hope for us and Iraq!! n/t

[TayTay]

7. Oh Joyous day!

We did it, we really did it! We saved Democracy and the the American military.

What, what do you do for an encore anyway?

[europegirl4jfk]

8. What a day today!

I just realize how much I personally hate these guys: Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney. One gone, two to go! Revenge is sweet!

[whometense]

9. Replacement is to be

Bob Gates (?) Once head of the CIA - anyone know anything? Franken just said that.

[beachmom]

11. Thank GOD it wasn't Lieberman n/t

[rox63]

15. That thought immediately struck me

when I heard that Rummy was out. That would have made it possible for the rethugs to get back one of the Senate seats, because CT's rethug governor would have chosen his replacement. But maybe I was just being a bit too paranoid there.

[rox63]

14. Info on Gates

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

[babylonsister]

16. More info on Gate, RE: Iran-Contra:

Robert Gates and a blurb RE: his involvement in the Iran-Contra Scandal:

Edited on Wed Nov-08-06 12:21 PM by babylonsister
Ben-Menashe, Ari. Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network. New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1992. 394 pages.

If this book is even half true, it means that less than ten percent of the Reagan and Bush administration double-dealing was ever revealed to the American public. Ari Ben-Menashe's description of the U.S.-Israeli arms network can only be described as "sensational." If you accept his scenario, it's apparent that an impotent U.S. Congress, once they got a whiff of the dimensions of the problem and considered their options, had no choice but to cover it all up. Some journalists who have verified portions of Ben-Menashe's story have found that his information is excellent. Others just wish he would disappear and are inclined to discredit him, because to accept him is to admit that you've been chasing your tail for ten years and missing it all. With Ben-Menashe, there doesn't seem to be any middle ground.

Ben-Menashe was one of six on Israel's top-secret Joint Committee on Israel-Iran Relations, and spent years globe-trotting for them, setting up fronts and transferring millions in cash. In 1980 he saw George Bush in Paris meeting with a high Iranian official, and in 1986 he briefed Bush. In 1981 Robert Gates helped him with his suitcase containing $56 million. Others in this book include Margaret Thatcher's son Mark, Chilean arms dealer Carlos Cardoen, and Paraguay's Alfredo Stroessner, to name a few. If you start reading this book, watch out for Mossad hit men and hold on to your hat.



http://www.namebase.org/books58.html

Also, from wiki (props to DUer reality based for catching this):

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

Gates left the CIA in 1974 to serve on the National Security Council staff but returned to the CIA in late 1979. He was named the Director of the DCI/DDCI Executive Staff in 1981, Deputy Director for Intelligence in 1982, and Deputy Director of Central Intelligence from April 18, 1986, to March 20, 1989. In early 1987 he was nominated to become the Director of Central Intelligence in early 1987, but withdrew after it became clear that the Senate would reject the nomination because of controversy about his role in the Iran-Contra affair.

[mloutre]

17. AP's quick-hit bio of Gates

" Gates, 63, has served as the president of Texas A&M University since August 2002, and as the university's interim dean of the George Bush School of Government and Public Service from 1999 to 2001.

"The school is home to the presidential library of Bush's father. Gates is a close friend of the Bush family, and particularly the first President Bush.

"He served as deputy national security adviser from 1989 to 1991 and then as CIA director during the first Iraq war, from 1991 until 1993.

"Gates joined the CIA in 1966 and is the only agency employee to rise from an entry level job to the 7th floor director's office. He served in the intelligence community for more than a quarter century, under six presidents."

[_dynamicdems]

10. Thank God!

Eat crow you Bushies!

[wisteria]

12. Absolutely wonderful!!!!!!!!!!n/t

[rox63]

13. Link to AP story on Rumsfeld resignation

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/R/RUMSFELD_RESIGNS?SITE=ININS&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

[beachmom]

18. Josh Marshall: Bush: for Rumsfeld before he was against him.

He basically admitted he lied in the press conference. He said before that Rumsfeld was doing a fantastic job and would stay on for 2 years.