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Ignorant Decision Makers

…Witness Don Rumsfeld, apparently attempting to be the first American Secretary of Defense to lose two major wars, assuming he doesn’t get his way in the next few months (in…

Andrew Sullivan says focus on McCain

…Bush’s war in Iraq was a fiasco and catastrophe, and before Donald Rumsfeld quit, McCain endorsed George W. Bush against his fellow Vietnam vet, John Kerry in 2004. By that…

Spain’s new defense minister

…Robert Gates Rumsfeld (Cheney) William Perry William Cohen Brown Robert McNamara Frank Carlucci James Schlesinger 2. If pregnancy is considered “medical”, is that different than say a man or woman…

G W Bush’s successful Presidency

…PNAC alumni. Among these were: Bush’s current vice president, Dick Cheney; Cheney’s former chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby; Bush’s former defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld; Bush’s former deputy defense…

Swiftboating Anthony Zinni

…course and surrendered all WMD capabilities, it retains scientific, technical, and industrial infrastructure to replace agents and munitions within weeks or months.” I see. The criticism of Rumsfeld is all…

GOP Passes Spending Cuts?

…lose out from the big cuts in small programs. I just wish it spent more time talking about the increases in spending for that massive budget given to Sec. Rumsfeld….

Jean Schmidt Takes on a Marine

…withdrawing troops in Iraq, according to a senior defense official. Gen. George Casey submitted the plan to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. It includes numerous options and recommends that brigades…

A Colossal Failure of Leadership

…the invasion of Iraq. Things were so bad “you almost wonder if Donald Rumsfeld is in charge,” said Marshall Wittmann, an analyst with the Democratic Leadership Council. To be fair…

Another $70 Billion

…to the Iraqi people. And so there are a variety of means that Iraq has to be able to shoulder much of the burden for their own reconstruction.” Donald Rumsfeld:…