# Rumsfeld to Resign **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 8, 2006, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumsfeld-to-resign/379582 "2006-11-08T17:57:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumsfeld-to-resign/379582/1 "2006-11-08T17:57:11Z")
Don’t let the door hit you on the ass on the way out, you smug, sanctimonious sack of crap. On second thought, let it. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumsfeld-to-resign/379582/2 "2006-11-08T17:58:24Z")
So you want him to leave slowly? ---
**Author:** ![Pjen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Pjen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pjen)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumsfeld-to-resign/379582/3 "2006-11-08T17:58:54Z")
[QUOTE=Knorf] Don’t let the door hit you on the ass on the way out, you smug, sanctimonious sack of crap. On second thought, let it. [/QUOTE] Beat me to it by just enough to stop a simulpost. 🙂 Suddenly the world seems a safer place. Christmas come early. ---
**Author:** ![usar\_jag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f0a364/32.png) [@usar\_jag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usar_jag)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumsfeld-to-resign/379582/4 "2006-11-08T18:00:03Z")
This is the closest I’ve come to being first. Dammit! Personally, I’m really curious as to who “The Decider” will replace him with… ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumsfeld-to-resign/379582/5 "2006-11-08T18:04:21Z")
[QUOTE=usar\_jag] This is the closest I’ve come to being first. Dammit! Personally, I’m really curious as to who “The Decider” will replace him with… [/QUOTE] MSNBC says Former CIA Director Robert Gates. Who’s that? ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumsfeld-to-resign/379582/6 "2006-11-08T18:07:30Z")
AP: [GOP says Rumsfeld is stepping down](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061108/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/rumsfeld_resigns_4) ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumsfeld-to-resign/379582/7 "2006-11-08T18:08:20Z")
[Robert Gates](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gates) ---
**Author:** ![treis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@treis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/treis)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumsfeld-to-resign/379582/8 "2006-11-08T18:08:44Z")
Bob Gates it is. Former director of the CIA, and current president of Texas A&M. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumsfeld-to-resign/379582/9 "2006-11-08T18:08:55Z")
I was hoping the headline would read “Rummy beats Subpeona, Resigns” [Maxwell Smart] “Missed it by That Much…” [/Maxwell Smart] ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumsfeld-to-resign/379582/10 "2006-11-08T18:09:02Z")
Oh, yay. ---
**Author:** ![Fritz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c57346/32.png) [@Fritz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fritz)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumsfeld-to-resign/379582/11 "2006-11-08T18:09:27Z")
The news just keeps getting better and better… ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumsfeld-to-resign/379582/12 "2006-11-08T18:09:43Z")
[QUOTE=Equipoise] MSNBC says Former CIA Director Robert Gates. Who’s that? [/QUOTE] [Robert Gates](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gates). ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumsfeld-to-resign/379582/13 "2006-11-08T18:12:20Z")
The enemy I know… ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumsfeld-to-resign/379582/14 "2006-11-08T18:14:10Z")
No FAIR! He shat this turd, he should be made to eat it! ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumsfeld-to-resign/379582/15 "2006-11-08T18:14:53Z")
At long last, the Democrats can say to Rumsfeld, “Gotcha ya!” CNN has a subhead reading “Rumsfeld: Man of War,” but I’ll always think of Rummy as a Man of LaMancha. He dreamed so many impossible dreams. He dreamed that Iraq was connected to September 11, that it had the WMD around Baghdad to the south west east and north somewhat, and that a force of 150,000 soldiers could keep the peace in a hostile country. He’s finally tilted at his last windmill. ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumsfeld-to-resign/379582/16 "2006-11-08T18:16:34Z")
Slowpokes. ---
**Author:** ![ted\_baskerville\_yahoo.com](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@ted\_baskerville\_yahoo.com](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ted_baskerville_yahoo.com)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumsfeld-to-resign/379582/17 "2006-11-08T18:16:58Z")
Does it make me gay if what Rumsfeld just did gave me an orgasim? ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumsfeld-to-resign/379582/18 "2006-11-08T18:17:36Z")
Watching live. Bush had a little smirk on his face when he mentioned Gates was pres. of A&M. Was he an Aggie at some point? ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumsfeld-to-resign/379582/19 "2006-11-08T18:25:34Z")
To quote Ronald Reagan (mainly because of the delicious irony of doing so will cause his sludge brained corpse to spin faster), “It’s morning in America.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumsfeld-to-resign/379582/20 "2006-11-08T18:25:56Z")
[QUOTE=jjimm] Watching live. Bush had a little smirk on his face when he mentioned Gates was pres. of A&M. Was he an Aggie at some point? [/QUOTE] He probably just did some lines of coke with some Aggie frat boys at some point. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumsfeld-to-resign/379582.md?page=2)