Democrats urge Bush to sack Rumsfeld

A GROUP of more than two dozen House of Representatives Democrats have introduced a resolution urging President George W Bush to fire Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

"This resolution would make official what so many members of Congress already believe that the soldiers in Iraq and America's foreign policy would be helped greatly if Donald Rumsfeld would leave," Charles Rangel of New York said in a statement.

Mr Rangel said he so far had 25 co-sponsors to the resolution who were "willing to stand up and say what so many policy makers know, that the first step to bringing our troops home is to send Donald Rumsfeld home."