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...like Bush, but there's no doubt that having Cheney in the Administration was an even bigger mistake than hiring former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Long gone are the days when a Vice President only attended funerals and did not cause them--so many of them. Libby (now Fibby) has been ruined playing a dangerous game for the V.P. and losing. Halliburton is moving to Dubai. Let's hope the company takes Cheney along...
Even before the rule, being an asshole could get you fired. It happened to Terrell Owens. And to Bobby Knight. Donald Rumsfeld got us mired in Iraq, but all the talk after his booting was about his sneering intransigence. Rupert Murdoch canned Judith Regan after her much booed O.J. Simpson memoir, but the publishing exec's rude behavior apparently sealed the deal. Sutton tells of law firms and Wall Street shops now purging their louts. As more corporations adopt codes of conduct that outlaw boorishness, we may see managers stapling the broken contract to the pink slip...
...Gonzales may also be suffering from what the aide calls "Rummy rub-off." Senators who stood up loud and clear to defend Rumsfeld before the '06 election, only to have Bush fire him immediately afterwards, have learned their lesson. Few want to take the political hit defending someone they don't like, only to see him step down in a few days or weeks...
...Gates' appointment seems to have freed up these kinds of logjams. Without Rumsfeld's baggage or background, Gates - whom some in the Pentagon are calling the "anti-Rumsfeld" - is free to disagree with policies and personnel that he inherited. "Gates seems to want to hold people accountable," says Lawrence Korb, Pentagon manpower chief during the Reagan administration. "Rumsfeld threatened a lot of people, but as far as we know never got rid of anybody for any mistakes...
...While Rumsfeld was in charge as the Pentagon began initial planning for the "surge" of 21,500 troops now being added to U.S. forces in Iraq, there already are reports that the military is developing a Plan B if the surge strategy fails. According to Monday's Los Angeles Times, Pentagon officials are weighing the wisdom of pulling out combat forces and relying more on the training of Iraqi forces to extricate U.S. troops from Iraq. It could resemble the U.S. strategy in El Salvador in the 1980s, when U.S. troops were dispatched to that Central American nation to train...