very weak argument
btw - nothing you said was innaccurate. You just forget to mention that she did eventually resign. The article Bum posted even had this quote from the PM:
Mr Chretien, whose relations with George W Bush already appeared strained before the current controversy, had refused to accept his aide's initial offer to resign on the grounds that the remark was made in a private conversation with a reporter.
"I'm very sorry. She was very good, a very competent person and served me and served the government extremely well and I wish her good luck," he told reporters on Tuesday.
Are you saying that given the situation, his public refusal to accept her resignation for over a week, wasn't an eternity?
A press secretary telling a reporter that the POTUS is a moron? In politics, ...that's MAJOR!
It was like Chretien was saying "I'm not letting her go. It's not like she's dropping any previously unknown secrets."
He probably saw it akin to firing the national security advisor for telling the world that the earth is round.
...it was something that everyone already knew, ...and were in agreement with.
