Word: rebuilding
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...manners; it's his war. It was Rumsfeld who ordered his reluctant generals to keep the U.S. invasion force relatively small last winter in order to shorten the war--though that has left the U.S. with what many believe is an occupying army too small to pacify, disarm and rebuild the fractured Iraqi nation. Five Americans died in combat last week, and the Baghdad hotel where Rumsfeld's deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, was staying came under attack by rocket fire (he was uninjured). And it is ever more clear that one ramification of Rumsfeld's win-it-fast design is that...
...enough resources to do the job, the failure to retain and reconstitute the Iraqi military in time to help quell civil disorder, the initial denial that an insurgency was the heart of the opposition to occupation, alienation of allies who could have helped in a more robust way to rebuild Iraq, and the continuing failure of the other agencies of our government to commit assets to the same degree as the Defense Department. My sincere view is that the commitment of our forces to this fight was done with a casualness and swagger that are the special province of those...
...rush of activity bore all the marks of a grassroots campaign. But these students were not promoting a politician. They wanted to help rebuild New Orleans, starting with one neighborhood called Broadmoor...
...Orleanians say they’re delaying decisions to rebuild or even to return until the mayor is chosen...
...want to see the city rebuild and come back,” she said. She pinned a blue button to her shirt—“BROADMOOR BLOCK CAPTAIN”—and sat still to listen to the students...