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...going? According to Donald Rumsfeld, pretty good indeed. Day Three of "Operation Iraqi Freedom" was all about control. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Saddam Hussein may be losing control of his country; at the same time, U.S. forces took control of some important oilfields in southern Iraq. Meanwhile, U.S. Marines caused a minor stir when they raised the U.S. flag over the Iraqi port Umm Qasr - while the U.S. is, in fact, taking control of Iraq, it doesn't want to be seen as, um, occupying Iraq. Just liberating it. So the flag came back down...
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld starts troop buildup in Middle East. Iraq issues declaration denying possesion of weapons of mass destruction. U.S. and U.K. reject the declaration, claiming Iraq is in “material breach” of U.N. resolutions. U.S. sets Jan. 27 as the decision day for war against Iraq. Inspections team finds “zilch” evidence of weapons of mass destruction. Iraqi exiles at a fractious meeting in London agree on power-sharing plan for post-Saddam Iraq...
Sept. 11 launched Franks on a different trajectory. The war in Afghanistan was an operation that was initially run by the CIA but gradually became a more traditional Centcom show. Franks didn't exactly wow the White House at first. Bush and Rumsfeld were impatient with the war's progress; the U.S. let bin Laden get away at Tora Bora, and a year later the search for the remnants of the Taliban continues. Franks had been set to retire in mid-2002, and if the Bush team had wanted to change generals, it could easily have done so. But Bush...
...fallout of Bush’s rhetoric means that anti-war groups must be increasingly vigilant about sustaining active debate rather than committing the same mistakes from the other side of the fence. Every time I hear a group or publication ironically refer to Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld as the Washington “axis of evil,” I cringe. As we barrel ahead toward war, we must not fall into the same trap as those we criticize...
...lies beyond the realm of the sovereignty-based UN system, and even such close allies as the British may have trouble selling their electorate a war on that basis. But some of the key architects of the administration's war plans, such as Vice President Cheney and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld never hid their disdain for the UN disarmament process, insisting over the past six months that Saddam is an incorrigible threat that can be eliminated only through regime-change...