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...heck of a lot easier, no doubt about it.? The other: ?They?re not happy they?re occupied. I wouldn?t be happy if I were occupied either.? Moore?s argument is that the U.S. is currently being occupied by a hostile, un-American force: the quintet of Bush, Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, John Ashcroft and Paul Wolfowitz...
...possible it won't work? Yes." Donald Rumsfeld, U.S. Defense Secretary, conceding that the effort to establish a stable democracy in Iraq might fail...
During Donald Rumsfeld's testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee last week, a few members of the audience shouted down the Secretary of Defense. He took it impassively. But then, he'd had recent experience with heckling, some of it from colleagues within the Administration. They engaged all week in thinly veiled finger pointing over the abuse of Iraqi prisoners, and, in a rare move, the White House let it be known that the President had privately rebuked his Defense Secretary for not advising him of the extent of the problem. A senior Administration official said the relationship between...
...Bush officials griped about what one called Rumsfeld's "destructive arrogance." Says the adviser: "You have no idea what it's like to deal with the United States of Rumsfeld." Colin Powell's closest aides, like chief of staff Larry Wilkerson, were quoted in GQ magazine, saying that Powell was weary of fighting ideological "utopians" in the Administration and being forced to do "damage control" and "apologizing around the world." Powell's foes, perhaps in retaliation, blamed him for being slow to decide to travel to the Middle East to help quell the furor over the abuse scandal. Says...
...letting reporters know the President had dressed down Rumsfeld, the White House joined in the internecine shoving it normally disdains. White House aides insist that the move was intended neither to placate critics who wanted Rumsfeld's head nor to fuel demands for the guillotine. The Bush team wanted to leak a piece of theater to make sure voters knew he was paying attention. Bush not only approved the leak but also made his staff let the Pentagon know it was coming. Others in the White House said the maneuver had an additional purpose: it was a presidential shot sent...