McCain: 'Thank God Rumsfeld Was Relieved of Duty'

Written by FrumForum News on Thursday February 3, 2011

ABC News' George Stephanopoulos reports:

"'Thank God he was relieved of his duties."

That’s what Sen. John McCain told me this morning when I asked him about a report that former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld wrote in his new book that McCain had a “hair-trigger temper” and “a propensity to shift his positions to appeal to the media.”

“I respect Secretary Rumsfeld. He and I had a very, very strong difference of opinion about the strategy that he was employing in Iraq which I predicted was doomed to failure,” the Arizona Republican said on “GMA.”

McCain and Rumsfeld had clashed over troop levels.

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