Have you lost respect for Bush now that he is offering up his friends in an attempt to save face .?

Cabinet members are always the scapegoats. Doesn't seem right.

This was a vote on the competence of the Republican leadership and a referendum about the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The rusulting pain suffered by the American people though inflation and increase Gas and fuel prices has been too much.

Wages are not rising fast enough to keep up withinflation becuase Reagan and Bush Sr capped the COLAs to the CPI and adjusted the formula to inaccurately reflect inflation. Inflation is 3% more than the Government is reporting to you. We are in recession because the growth GNP minus Govt reported inflation is less than 3% and it is under-reported

The people will only take so much.

How do you know Bush offered him up? How do you know that Rumsfeld insisted on going because he knew he was hurting the presidency? This is politics! That's they way things are done! If Rumsfeld didn't know that when he signed on, he shouldn't have signed on. Besides, is this about "friends" or about the best outcome for the war?

Not at all. I never respected him or his policies from the beginning of his Dictatorship. Poor liars that they are they gotta play hardball now. Get the prison uniforms out and shut em up in Abu Ghraib. Make sure they get the same handlers the Iraqis had. Wheres that Lindsay chick anyway?

This has nothing to do with saving face. It's been a long time in coming. The meeting with ex-CIA chief Robert Baker came last weekend, BEFORE elections had been decided.

He's doing what he should have done, and generals have telling him should have been done, a long time ago. If anything I have a little more respect for Bush, but just a little.

The phrasing of your question would imply that I ever had respect for Bush. None. Nope. Nada. Respect only for the office of the presidency, not for the dangerously stupid buffoon in office.

I haven't lost any respect for him. At least he is trying to DO something. It's too bad that it took an election to get him to hear what everyone has been saying though.

Being a veteran who actually SERVED, I've never had respect. Someone who basically manipulates the system so he won't have to serve in the military is in no way qualified to be it's commander in chief.

Losing respect would imply that I once had respect for him. I never respected him, I don't respect him now and I will never respect him. He's a bold faced liar !!

I will always respect President Bush.