Word: rumsfeldian
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...indirect control over procurement policy. The Bush administration’s tenure in office was marked by the rapid proliferation of no-bid contracts between the Pentagon and numerous defense contractors; the result was an ugly mess of a procurement program that failed to achieve any noteworthy successes. The Rumsfeldian fracas over up-armored Humvees—which failed to appear in any appreciable quantity in the Iraqi theater of operations until more than four years after the beginning of combat operations—is just one example of how poor management and lenient oversight at the Pentagon have cost...
...minute exchange had none of the combativeness of a Rumsfeldian question-and-answer session. He started the brief by apologizing to the press for holding it on a Friday afternoon; he had pledged to reporters last week that he would hold one once a week, and rather than go back on his word, he asked his staff to set it up. Gates didn't stop the presses with his comments, but he answered directly and, even, dare say, respectfully. There was one exception - Gates was unable to explain why the Pentagon misled reporters in the initial reports about an incident...
...authorizing the war. That was the reason Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz jumped so aggressively down the throat of General Eric Shinseki when the latter suggested to Congress that the occupation mission would require a "few hundred thousand" troops. It wasn't that Wolfowitz was seized by some Rumsfeldian "new-generation warfare" fever; he was simply determined to eliminate any political obstacle to the invasion...
...with that, the Pentagon chief began to tap dance. His reply, according to a Republican Senator in the room, was a classic Rumsfeldian fugue--complete with interesting hand gestures--mentioning reductions and foreign troops and steady progress. Or, as the G.O.P. Senator described it later, "it was a five-minute, total nonanswer, just unbelievably obtuse." Another Republican Senator put it this way to TIME: "Rumsfeld believes in his own magic...
...what we've witnessed in the past year or so is a new pattern: successive top-level edicts that bolster the clout of Pyongyang's overseas adversaries?particularly Rumsfeldian warriors who dream of imposing "regime change" on North Korea...
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