I would love to know the timeline of Rumsfeld's memo re: Iraq

[Poiuyt]

Rumsfeld Tried To Change Course In Iraq
Outgoing Pentagon Chief Suggested Major Policy Shifts Two Days Before Resigning

(AP) President Bush said Saturday he wants to hear all advice before making decisions about changes in Iraq strategy, even as it was disclosed that Donald H. Rumsfeld called for major changes in tactics two days before he resigned as defense secretary.

“In my view it is time for a major adjustment,” Rumsfeld wrote in a Nov. 6 memo to the White House. “Clearly, what U.S. forces are currently doing in Iraq is not working well enough or fast enough.”

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There is no hint in the memo Rumsfeld sent to the White House a day before the Nov. 7 elections that he intended to resign. However, a person familiar with the sequence of those events told the AP that Rumsfeld did know when he wrote it that he would be leaving. The person discussed the matter on condition of anonymity.

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/12/02/iraq/main2223478.shtml

Did Bush fire Rumsfeld because of this memo, or had he made up his mind to fire him before the memo. Remember, Bush had said the week before that Rumsfeld would stay until the end of Bush's term.

[snowbear]

1. Rumsfeld article..

Wow.. the people who commented on that story on the CBS site are all bickering at one another..

Who knows though.. maybe during the process of one investigation or another, the truth about Rumsfeld & Bush will come to light.. We can only hope..

[WFF]

2. I'm guessing that it was the final straw

But you never know. I was skeptical the way the whole thing went down with Bush declaring right before the election that Rummy would stay and then firing him right after. He could have help the Republicans by firing him BEFORE the election. Why would Bush have waited until after the election unless something dramatic happened to change his mind?