Letter Shows Rumsfeld Resigned Day Before '06 Election

AP:

The word "Iraq" doesn't appear in former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's resignation letter.

Neither does the word "war."

In fact, the deadly and much-criticized conflict that eventually drummed him out of office, comes up only in vague references, such as "a critical time in our history" and "challenging time for our country," in the four-paragraph, 148-word letter he wrote to President Bush a day before the Nov. 7, 2006 election.

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