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From: LindyBill11/15/2004 1:06:42 PM
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Rumsfeld Stays
By Matthew Yglesias

Dan Drezner notes that today's mass announcement of cabinet departures ought to make it perfectly clear that Don Rumsfeld is here to stay as Secretary of Defense. Before the election I found that a shockingly large number of well-informed (and better connected than I) Republicans (all of whom wound up casting their votes -- whichever way -- with considerable reluctance) thought that Rumsfeld would go in a second-term and we would get a reality-based foreign policy. I would have thought that Bush's description of Rumsfeld as the best Secretary of Defense ever (don't recall his exact words, but that really is what he said) would have put an end to that. The good news, such as it is, is that the rumor mill seems to be indicating that Bush will turn Doug Feith into some kind of sacrificial lamb and at least get rid of him. The thing to watch in that regard, though, will be what happens to Feith's immediate subordinates -- if Rumsfeld wants to clean house he'd have to get rid of a bunch of people.
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