The article below is from a WaPo editorial and it raises a really valid point:
PRESIDENT BUSH'S stubborn support for Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has compounded U.S. troubles in Iraq, prevented a remedy for the criminal mistreatment of foreign detainees and worsened relations with a host of allies. Now it is deepening the domestic political hole in which the president is mired. Half a dozen senior retired generals have publicly criticized Mr. Rumsfeld, touching off another damaging and distracting controversy at a critical moment in the war. Thanks in part to his previous misjudgments, Mr. Bush has no easy way out.
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The long and short of it comes to this. Rumsfeld can't resign without giving the impression he caved to their pressure and a appearing weak and W can't can Rumsfeld for the same reason.
Not that Rumsfeld would resign and if W had a choice between appearing weak and kissing Ted Kennedy on the lips on camera I think he'd pucker up (and brush his teeth with a brillo pad afterwards).
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