WAS HE THE REAL PROBLEM, OR JUST BEING THROWN UNDER THE BUS?

I am as shocked as anybody about today's turn of events. After a virtual parade of experts (including many, many military leaders) calling for Rumsfeld's firing, "W' finally listened? Or, is this a kneejerk reaction to the elections yesterday? Possibly this is merely an olive branch sent across the aisle, in an attempt to avoid the near certain House hearings on oversight for the war in Iraq?

Who do you blame? The Secretary of Defense who followed administrations orders on how to fight a war that was planned well before the President's election to the Oval Office, or the architect of it all, the man who continually told the nation to "stay the course in Iraq."

All those thinking this resignation will do anything to change policy in Iraq, signify by saying "Aye." Say what you want about the man, he did get all of our citizens looking up the meaning of "hubriS."

If only our President could have somehow summoned up enough intelligence to nomnate Colin Powell, instead of a marginal Ex-CIA chief, we might just back on the right track.