Friday, November 10, 2006

Rumsfeld resigns as secretary of defense (AP)

US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld leaves the stage after an October 2006 briefing at the Pentagon. Rumsfeld stayed out of sight after a massive Republican defeat in legislative elections seen as a vote for a change of course in Iraq.(AFP/File/Mandel Ngan)AP - After years of defending his secretary of defense President Bush on Wednesday announced Donald H. Rumfeld's resignation within hours of the Democrats' triumph in congressional elections. Bush reached back to his father's administration to tap a former CIA director to run the Pentagon.


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