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...month ago, President Bush was on a crusade against the media "filter" that he believed was stopping the American people getting the good news on Iraq. Now, it appears, the President himself has been the victim of a "filter" - in the form of Vice President Cheney and the Rumsfeld crowd at the Pentagon who have kept the bad news from Iraq off his desk. Indeed, it was to make an end-run around that particular "filter" that a bleak CIA assessment of U.S. operations in Iraq was leaked to the media. The analysis, written by the CIA's Baghdad station...
While it is certain the Bush administration would never reinstate the draft in an election year (besides, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said last year he was opposed to a new draft), the Pentagon’s actions reflect the glaring urgency of the situation in Iraq. As the violence intensifies, there has been increased attention to the fact that troop levels in Iraq are grossly inadequate. Late last week, the Pentagon announced its new troop rotation plan, which calls for 50,000 additional U.S. troops in Iraq in the next several months, bringing the total level...
Lifland’s opinion suggested that he concurred with FAIR’s claims that Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld has overstepped his Congressional mandate...
...Rumsfeld has asserted that the Solomon Amendment grants him the power to cut off all federal funds for universities that inhibit military recruitment at their law schools...
...will not learn much from the dueling movies on NBC and CBS (both Nov. 9, 9 p.m. E.T.). For Saving Jessica Lynch, NBC couldn't get the co-operation of the 20-year-old private, but that didn't stop it any more than France's balking stopped Donald Rumsfeld. Lynch (Laura Regan) ends up less a character than a prop. We learn little about her captivity, and she has scant dialogue or characterization; Regan's main technique is to open her eyes lemurishly wide to convey fear, soulfulness and joy alike. The real lead--because he did cooperate with...