President George W. Bush said on Wednesday he expected Donald Rumsfeld to stay on as defense secretary for the rest of his presidency, rejecting election-year demands the Pentagon chief resign over Iraq. In campaigns for next Tuesday’s elections in which Republicans are in danger of losing control of the U.S. Congress, many Democrats have called for Rumsfeld to resign and some Republicans have expressed doubts about his leadership after an October of unrelenting violence and 104 U.S. troop deaths — the highest toll in nearly two years. Full Story
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