Now We Know the Real Reason Rummy Was Fired:

He had the audacity to admit he was wrong. The New York Times reports today that

[t]wo days before he resigned as defense secretary, Donald H. Rumsfeld submitted a classified memo to the White House that acknowledged that the Bush administration’s strategy in Iraq was not working and called for a major course correction.

“In my view it is time for a major adjustment,” wrote Mr. Rumsfeld, who has been a symbol of a dogged stay-the-course policy. “Clearly, what U.S. forces are currently doing in Iraq is not working well enough or fast enough.”

And we were all dumb enough to believe that Rummy's removal signified the end of the "stay the course" philosophy. Ooops! Fooled again.