"...one of the "worst-kept secrets in town" –

[stilltrucking]

Report of Troop Cuts Draws IreDemocrats say Pentagon plan resembles Senate resolution that was soundly defeated last week
-Michael Abramowitz and Thomas E. Ricks
Washington Post

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said that the plan attributed to Gen. George W. Casey resembles the thinking of many Democrats who voted for a nonbinding resolution to begin a troop drawdown in December. That resolution was defeated Thursday on a largely party-line vote in the Senate.



Sen. Carl M. Levin (Mich.), one of the two sponsors of the nonbinding resolution, which offered no pace or completion date for a withdrawal, said the report is another sign of what he termed one of the "worst-kept secrets in town" -- that the administration intends to pull out troops before the midterm elections in November.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 00764.html

[mnaz]

Politics is brutal, brutal business. We should have seen it by now.

[stilltrucking]

I read an opinion piece in The Washington Post in the summer of 2001 reporting that Rumseld was on his way out . One of those inside the beltway columns. They called him Rip Van Rummy.

It was a magic moment when Laurel met Hardy. When Osama met Donald was another.