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“No, I did not and the reason I didn’t know is because I hadn’t visited with his replacement.”

- US President George W. Bush at today’s press conference answering a reporter’s question as to whether he knew he was going to ask Rumsfeld for his resignation when he stated last week that Rumsfeld was going to stay on board for the next two years.

Quick comment on my part: Let me see if I got this right: so last week Bush said he wasn’t going to kick Rumsfeld out. Bush tells us today he wasn’t planning on doing it because he didn’t get the chance to visit his replacement. Yet Bush stated that didn’t know last week that he was going to hand Rumsfeld his walking papers. But there was a replacement, he said it himself. How can you not know that you’re going to fire someone if there’s a replacement in the wings?

(Video at Crooks and Liars)

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