[lbo-talk] Tommy Thompson Is Terrified...of food

[Dwayne Monroe]

Thompson to Leave Cabinet, Rumsfeld Stays

By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld — scarred by postwar 
violence and prison scandal in Iraq — accepted President Bush request 
that he remain for the second-term Cabinet. Health and Human Services 
Secretary Tommy Thompson resigned Friday, warning as he left of a 
possible terror attack on the nation's food supply.

"For the life of me, I cannot understand why the terrorists have not 
attacked our food supply because it is so easy to do," Thompson said as 
announced his departure. "We are importing a lot of food from the Middle 
East, and it would be easy to tamper with that."

Thompson's resignation broadened the exodus that has emptied more than 
half of Bush's Cabinet before he takes the oath of office for a second 
term. In all, eight members of the 15-person Cabinet have said they will 
leave.

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