Rumsfeld Not Leaving...Not Bloody Likely.

Long-term Rummy?

Dec 17, 2005
by Robert Novak

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Senior Defense Department officials say Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has told them nobody should stay for just another year, but that he wants them for the rest of President Bush's second term. That is read as a signal that Rumsfeld intends to serve out the next three years.

Rumsfeld finishing his term would contradict wide speculation that he will quit soon after this week's Iraqi parliamentary elections. That is now considered unlikely even if he does not complete the full term.

A footnote: White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card has said flatly there is no truth whatsoever to reports he is about to move to the Treasury to replace Secretary John Snow.

I said when it started that the rumors were just wishful Liberal thinking. I guess I was correct. Rumsfeld stepping down wouldn't make sense except for some overiding personal interest. He is just too good in this job. Go Rummy Go!

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