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To: freelyhovering who wrote (31333)	11/10/2006 8:10:51 AM
From: JohnM	of 541658

On yesterday's Dowd column, I guess that's where I read that. It sounds about right. But it's giving Baker an awful lot of clout. If Bush can be believed (a definite stretch), he decided to replace Rumsfeld some time ago (runs counter to the several inside stories that Cheney fought it up to the day or two before the election). And if that's even close to true, it could well be that Rumsfeld has been living on the proverbial borrowed time for some time and that Baker seeded the final straw that broke the camel's back (just love mixing metaphors). It does make extremely good sense that Baker would not want Rumsfeld around if he (Baker) sensed his own commission's recommendations would be seriously different from the present strategy. My own misgivings is that it gives Baker a great deal of clout. With a president who has, quite notoriously, not given such to his father's advisors. But, just perhaps, Bush the son has given up on Iraq and needs only the slightest of fig leaves as cover to leave Dodge.

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