Reply #50: The Bush Admin is between a rock and a hard place on this one [View All]

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Do they:

Keep Rummy, despite the uproar? I suppose they could hope that this will all blow over. However, it seems to me that some powerful people are really out to get him and have weakened him to the point where he will become another albatross around the neck of this administration.

On the other hand, if they ditch Rummy, it will be taken (and rightfully so) as an admission that they fucked up terribly with Iraq. Most of us already know this of course, but Rummy's resignation would crystalize it as fact in the collective mind. I don't think it would be going too far to say that a Rummy resignation could bring down the whole house of cards.

So, there you go. I would be glad that this treacherous administration is in such a predicament, if it did not have such terrible ramifications for those serving in the military and our nation in general.