Rumsfeld urged major changes in Iraq

So it becomes even more clear. Don't piss off Bush by telling him something he doesn't want to hear unless your bags are packed.

President Bush said Saturday he understands that Americans are upset about continuing bloodshed in Iraq even as it was disclosed that Donald H. Rumsfeld called for major changes in tactics two days before he resigned as defense secretary.

"In my view it is time for a major adjustment," Rumsfeld wrote in a Nov. 6 memo to the White House. "Clearly, what U.S. forces are currently doing in Iraq is not working well enough or fast enough."

Existence of the classified memo was first reported by The New York Times on its Internet site Saturday evening in a story for the paper's Sunday editions.

Pentagon press secretary Eric Ruff said he was not the source of the leak to the Times, but confirmed the memo's authenticity to The Associated Press late Saturday.

Just to be clear on this, I'm sure his ideas for change would have been as fucked as all his other ideas, but at least he was entertaining the idea mistakes had been made.

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