McGrath, I wasn't implying that most people on this thread were calling for Rumsfeld to kill himself (although a few did so explicitly). I recognize a metaphor as well as the next guy does, and in fact that is how I referred to it. What I was saying was that expecting to solve this problem by a punitive forced resignation is kind of short-sighted. Yeah, the military screwed up pretty badly, and as their top civilian leader (except for the President), Rumsfeld is responsible for it. But the most important thing to do now is to fix what is broken, not to demand the (metaphorical) head of Rumsfeld and then declare that the problem has been solved.

Anyway, my guess is that Rumsfeld has offered his resignation -- privately. And the President has rejected it, at least for now.