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...officials are quick to speak out, branding such attacks as aimed at the Iraqi people. Unfortunately, such sentiments don't carry as much weight inside Iraq when they come from Paul Bremer or Don Rumsfeld, and - as Bremer has complained - there's a conspicuous absence of an Iraqi voice speaking out forcefully, publicly and consistently denouncing such attacks. Indeed, the response to the security crisis by the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council has been to urge the U.S. to transfer more security and political control to Iraqis, although their internal divisions are reflected in competing visions on what form this...
...contributes to the security problem, the security problem also suggests that there'll be no early end to the occupation, either. Pentagon plans to begin drawing down the U.S. troop complement in Iraq by next summer, on current indicators, looks more than a little optimistic. As Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld put it in a recent memo to colleagues leaked last week to the media, what lies ahead for the U.S. in Iraq is a "long, hard slog...
...truly believe that the U.S. has to avoid unilaterism at all costs. Colin Powell and Condi Rice and Don Rumsfeld have put in a tremendous amount of time to create a strategic vision for a new NATO...
...beginning, the Bush Administration tended to blame the attacks on die-hard Saddam loyalists whom Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld dubbed "deadenders." It was assumed that those fighters wanted to see Saddam restored to power. In the Sunni triangle, the remnants of the Baath Party regime are thought to still account for a sizable segment of the anti-American militants. But U.S. officials believe they are making progress against the loyalists, as more figures from the deposed regime are captured or killed. Pentagon officers say the modest scale of the attacks suggests that they are conducted by small cells operating largely...
...pretty clear that the coalition can win in Afghanistan and Iraq in one way or another, but it will be a long, hard slog." Donald Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense, in a memo to top-ranking defense officials leaked to USA Today...