Donald Rumsfeld has clearly lost the confidence of a lot of Americans. He is pretty unpopular now and I think it's an easy for the Democrats to say, instead of presenting our plan for Iraq, what we're saying is we need new management of this war.
On the recordSeptember 5, 2006
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Discussing the political strategy of Democrats regarding Rumsfeld.
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