Chicken Hunter's Thoughts:
"Being from Greenland I try to stay away from the kind of personal attacks on politicians from the USA, but I think if you walked through Don Rumsfeld's yard he would yell, "HEY YOU! GET OFF OF MY LAWN BEFORE I CALL THE POLICE."
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Bush said Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld is stepping down.
Bush, reaching into the administration of his father, said that former CIA Director Robert Gates, the current Texas A&M president, will take over at the Pentagon and in prosecuting the war in Iraq.
The development occurred one day after midterm elections that cost Republicans control of the House, and possibly the Senate, as well. Surveys of voters at polling places said opposition to the war was a significant contributor to the Democratic victory.
Bush defended Rumsfeld's troubled tenure, calling him "a patriot who served this country with honor and distinction."
In today's news conference in Washington today, Bush also congratulated Democrats on their election victories and said he looks forward to working with the opposition party.
``I recognize that many Americans voted last night to register their displeasure with the lack of progress being made'' in Iraq, the president said. ``Yet I also believe most Americans - and leaders here in Washington from both political parties - understand we cannot accept defeat.''
Rumsfeld, a key target of Iraq war critics, apparently is stepping down in the wake of Democratic midterm election gains.
Gates led the CIA, under then-President George H.W. Bush, from November 1991 to January 1993.
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