Army Times - because he "renewed his vows"

this supports my speculation that today's multi-paper editorial was in response to bush's statement last week that rummy would stay for the duration of bush's term...

Army Times editor Robert Hodierne explains the timing of an editorial published today in the Military Times papers that calls for the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

Hodierne explains, "We did it right now because, last week, president Bush renewed his vows with the Secretary and said that the Secretary would be around for the balance of the two years of the president's term. We thought that was the wrong decision and took the opportunity to do so."

Playing down the idea that the editorials critical of Rumsfeld were intended to influence the midterm election, Hodierne says, "I don't know how much impact it's going to have. That wasn't part of our calculation. Our calculation was in view that strong statement of support by the president. We felt the need to say, 'We disagree with that.'"

after all, it's not like a call to dump the donald is coming out of the blue... if someone is to be faulted, it's bush for opening his big yap and, once again, painting himself into a corner...

p.s. ya gotta love that line: "renewed his vows...!"

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