That was one of the ugliest smear campaigns I had ever seen and I also wondered if Bush could be holding something over on McCain. But I believe it is all politics. McCain is a popular enough guy to swing plenty of republican and undecided voters alike fro a bid in 2008, but turning against Bush could cost him the "Bush base," the value voters. Play nice now and step into a campaign in 2008 without a Rove character assassination on your heels.
Schwarzkopf also blasted Rummy the other day on Hardball:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6711952/
"But they deserve every bit of protection that we can give them. Absolutely. And I was very, very disappointed—let me put it stronger, I was angry about the words of the secretary of defense when he laid it all on the Army. I mean, as if he as the secretary of defense didn‘t have anything to do with the Army, if the Army was over there doing it themselves screwing up. "