"I wouldn't be where I am today if it hadn't been for what Don Rumsfeld was willing to do," Cheney said.

To cheney: Have you taken a real good look at what you have become? You should see yourself through my eyes! If they ever event a time machine, this is one event that must be undone at almost any cost.

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Cheney's words sound suspiciously like a promise, not a regret.

Fear not, young Rummy-lovers. As soon as Dick's Fourth Branch takes complete control of DC, the Department of Defense changes its name to Department of Shoot First, Shoot Often and gets a brand new field marshal named Donald Rumsfeld. And flashy new uniforms with piping and armbands and stuff.

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A lot of people say that Rumsfeld and Rove both left because they were against bombing Iran, which Cheney has been pushing for.

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"In short, it seems possible that Rove, who is no one's dummy and would not want to be required to "spin" an unnecessary war on Iran, may have lost the battle with Cheney over the merits of a military strike on Iran, and only then decided-or was urged-to spend more time with his family. As for administration spokesperson Tony Snow, it seems equally possible that, before deciding he had to leave the White House to make more money, he concluded that his stomach could not withstand the challenge of conjuring up yet another Snow job to explain why Bush/Cheney needed to attack Iran. There is recent precedent for this kind of thing.

We now know that it was because former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld went wobbly on the Iraq war-as can be seen in his Nov. 6, 2006 memo to the president-that Rumsfeld was canned. (That was the day BEFORE the election.) In that memo, Rumsfeld called for a "major adjustment" in war policy. And so, Robert Gates, who had been waiting in the wings, was called to Crawford, given the test for malleability, hired, and dispatched by the president immediately to Iraq to weigh in heavily with the most senior U.S. generals (Abizaid and Casey). They had been saying, quite openly, Please, please; no more troops; a surge would simply give the Iraqis still more time and opportunity to diddle us while American troops continue to die. So much for the president always listening to his senior military commanders. And the bug of reality was infecting even Rumsfeld."
-Ray McGovern, 27 year veteran CIA analyst

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If he doesn't simmer down, he could find himself hunting alone.

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