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...about the same time that Bush's closest aide, counselor Karen Hughes, announced she would be packing up and heading back to Texas, longtime confidants of Powell began to whisper that the retired four-star general is tired of being undercut by Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and the hard-liners who work for them...
...Times there was talk within the Saudi royal family of using the "oil weapon" against the U.S. and of asking Americans to leave their Saudi bases. After the Crawford meeting, a Saudi foreign policy adviser said that "we will not use oil as a weapon," while Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told TIME that the future of U.S. bases was not even discussed. Still, the question is now on the table: Could the U.S. dispense with Saudi oil and military bases...
...Hawks like Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Deputy Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and Defense Policy Board chief Richard Perle strongly believe that after years of American sanctions and periodic air assaults, the Iraqi leader is weaker than most people believe. Rumsfeld has been so determined to find a rationale for an attack that on 10 separate occasions he asked the CIA to find evidence linking Iraq to the terror attacks of Sept. 11. The intelligence agency repeatedly came back empty-handed. The best hope for Iraqi ties to the attack - a report that lead hijacker Mohamed Atta met with an Iraqi...
...discuss lessons learned. Perhaps the most important knowledge so far came during the U.S. operation in Tora Bora last December, when Afghan allies proved ineffective as a fighting force. Rumors persist that Afghan soldiers allowed Osama bin Laden to slip away into Pakistan, a claim that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld denied again last week. Whether bin Laden escaped over the snow-capped mountains or not, U.S. forces now know that while "air power can do a lot, nothing beats soldiers on the ground," says Marine Captain Jeff Pool, a public-affairs officer at Bagram. "We say we never really...
When book editor Herman Gollob finally put down his blue pencil in 1995--having spent more than 35 years polishing the works of such authors as Donald Barthelme, James Clavell, Arthur Hailey, Alex Haley, Bill Moyers and Leon Uris--he had the usual fuzzy plans for retirement. He imagined, as many of us do, that he would simply dive into the pile of books he had never read, the videos he had never watched, the CDs he had never heard...