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ChiciB1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-08-05 04:10 PM
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Lieberman Eyed For Rummy's Job!!
Just Got This from TRUTHOUT... hope the link works! I usually screw up the link, don't KNOW why!!

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120805I.shtml

Rummy Exit Rumored; Lieberman Eyed for Job
By Thomas M. DeFrank and Kenneth R. Bazinet
The New York Daily News

Thursday 08 December 2005

Washington - White House officials are telling associates they expect Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to quit early next year, once a new government is formed in Iraq, sources said yesterday.

Rumsfeld's deputy, Gordon England, is the inside contender to replace him, but there's also speculation that Sen. Joe Lieberman - a Democrat who ran against Bush-Cheney in the 2000 election - might become top guy at the Pentagon.

That's not as farfetched as it might first appear.

The Daily News has learned that the White House considered Lieberman for the UN ambassador's job last year before giving the post to John Bolton, a Bush adviser said.

"He thought about it for a week or so and finally said no," the adviser recalled.

A source close to the White House said Rumsfeld wanted out a year ago, after Bush's reelection, but neither he nor President Bush wanted his departure to appear to have been forced.

"They didn't want to give the critics the satisfaction that their piling on was what got rid of him," a Bush adviser said.

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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-08-05 04:13 PM
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1. does this mean we have a chance to get a Democrat in his seat?
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-08-05 04:18 PM
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3. Means a GOP governor will appoint someone
who then has incumbent perks for the 06 race.

Joe is a disgrace and I hope Gore calls him on it publicly.
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ChiciB1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-08-05 04:20 PM
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5. YES! Gore Does Need To Buzz Him
YESTERDAY!

I just signed a letter to Lieberman and told him he should either put the "R" behind his name or quit his LOVE FEST with The Idiot!!!

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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-08-05 04:27 PM
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6. Some of us are including Teddy Roosevelt quotes on that message to Joe
Edited on Thu Dec-08-05 04:28 PM by havocmom
Some of us might consider using the comments section to quote the Bill of Rights to the man.

edited to add link to message for Joe:

http://tools.democracyforamerica.com/petition/telljoe/

Get the word out folks. Joe has some come-uppance coming.
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-08-05 04:16 PM
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2. your link works fine!
and most of us will not be surprised about Joe going public working for the junta.

The man ain't a DEM, not even a DINO. Doubt he is even a secret Republican. More a Likud sorta guy. Maybe he wants Sharon's job?
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bigtree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-08-05 04:20 PM
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4. rummy's job?


oh, you meant rumsfeld . . .
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