NBC Reports Rumsfeld Stepping Down!!

[Gold9472]

"Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is stepping down, sources tell CNN."

[Tonya]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15622266/

:)

[Tonya]

Hah! You beat me by a few seconds! You win!

[Eckolaker]

Smoke and Mirrors folks, smoke and mirrors.


Do not allow yourself to slip into a flase sense of victory.

Now is the time to push harder then ever!

[Gold9472]

Phhhh... I'll be happy when Rumsfeld is swinging from the gallows.

[Tonya]

what was that long bleep for during Bush's speech???? did he curse?

[Cloak & Swagger]

The successor probably isn't much better.
The dude's Wiki profile is already updated:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gates
"Secretary of Defense - On November 8, 2006 George W. Bush nominated Robert Gates to serve as Secretary of Defense in the wake of Donald Rumsfeld's resignation."

[Cloak & Swagger]

does anybody else get the feeling that this is designed to take attention away some...thing...else...??

[Tonya]

yeah, I kinda figured. I am still glad Rumsfeld is gone though. The successor is probably just as bad---just maybe not so cocky. Either way, personality doesn't matter---dangerous minds are dangerous minds and evil is evil. We all know we can't rest! It is still nice to be able to smile for a second and seeing Rumsfeld go makes me smile. Of course, he only left because he was going to be forced out.

[Cloak & Swagger]

what was that long bleep for during Bush's speech???? did he curse?
Did they also doctor the video like they did on this one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u2ITs4yIAE&eurl=)

[Tonya]

I still want to know what the bleep was for---don't you? Did anyone else notice it? Was it only on NBC or did the other networks have a bleep too?

[Tonya]

Hmmm...... Maybe if the Senate goes to the Dems, maybe they won't be so quick to approve Gates. It could be a big battle---that will be called "partisan politics" and the Reps. will get angry if Dems don't simply approve whomever Bush wants. I see a battle if Dems win Virginia.

[AuGmENTor]

Substitute one asshole for another? Whew! I feel much better now! Fuck you Rummy, you can still be prosecuted for criminal activity.

[Gold9472]

Involvement In The Iran Contra Affair

Owing to his senior status in the CIA, Gates was close to many figures who played significant roles in the Iran/contra affair and was in a position to have known of their activities. The evidence developed by Independent Counsel did not warrant indictment of Gates for his Iran/contra activities or his responses to official inquiries.

Gates was an early subject of Independent Counsel's investigation, but the investigation of Gates intensified in the spring of 1991 as part of a larger inquiry into the Iran/contra activities of CIA officials. This investigation received an additional impetus in May 1991, when President Bush nominated Gates to be Director of Central Intelligence (DCI). The chairman and vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) requested in a letter to the Independent Counsel on May 15, 1991, any information that would “significantly bear on the fitness” of Gates for the CIA post.

Gates consistently testified that he first heard on October 1, 1986, from the national intelligence officer who was closest to the Iran initiative, Charles E. Allen, that proceeds from the Iran arms sales may have been diverted to support the contras. Other evidence proves, however, that Gates received a report on the diversion during the summer of 1986 from DDI Richard Kerr.[5] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gates#_note-4) The issue was whether Independent Counsel could prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Gates was deliberately not telling the truth when he later claimed not to have remembered any reference to the diversion before meeting with Allen in October.

Grand Jury secrecy rules hampered Independent Counsel's response. Nevertheless, in order to answer questions about Gates' prior testimony, Independent Counsel accelerated his investigation of Gates in the summer of 1991. This investigation was substantially completed by September 3, 1991, at which time Independent Counsel determined that Gates' Iran/contra activities and testimony did not warrant prosecution.

Independent Counsel made this decision subject to developments that could have warranted reopening his inquiry, including testimony by Clair E. George, the CIA's former deputy director for operations. At the time Independent Counsel reached this decision, the possibility remained that George could have provided information warranting reconsideration of Gates's status in the investigation. George refused to cooperate with Independent Counsel and was indicted on September 19, 1991. George subpoenaed Gates to testify as a defense witness at George's first trial in the summer of 1992, but Gates was never called.

[beltman713]

Fuck Rumsfeld, good riddance! See you in court bitch!

[PhilosophyGenius]

does anybody else get the feeling that this is designed to take attention away some...thing...else...??

No. They problably wanted Rummy to leave on his own terms and not get fired by Congress.

Bush in his press conference also basically admitted that he lied to reporters about Rummy staying, he knew he was going to leave.

[PhilosophyGenius]

Fuck Rumsfeld, good riddance! See you in court bitch!

1 word: Pardon

And isn't Rummy protected from war crimes in that recent bill?

[beltman713]

You know, not impeaching this twerp and not going after his subordinates might be the smart thing. Wait till Bush is out of office and we have a Democratic president, then go after all these fuckers. Sorry, there will be no pardons for any of you.

Or just let the international courts go after them, then Bush will not be able to pardon any of them.

[beltman713]

Saw this photoshop on sternchat, couldn't resist...

http://img382.imageshack.us/img382/3305/rummyhi3.jpg

[thumper]

illuminati just put on a belated halloween costume

[beltman713]

illuminati just put on a belated halloween costume
??????

[PhilosophyGenius]

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b245/Dan181/rumsfeld.jpg

http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/ehlee/Images/Pictures/nelson.gif