Word: rumsfeldism
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...warned of an attack. He then failed to catch and kill the most important terrorist who attacked the U.S. He tells Americans that freedom is on the march. Meanwhile, Iraqi cities are uncontrolled, hostages are beheaded, and bombs explode almost daily because of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's ill-conceived military planning. The U.S. budget deficit is exploding. Bush has diminished individual rights in the U.S. And we are told he was re-elected because Americans trust his morals and he makes them feel safer. As the Americans say: "Go figure." Pierre de Villiers Johannesburg...
...didn't want to support the President's position, I wouldn't be in the Administration." DONALD RUMSFELD, U.S. Defense Secretary, responding to a New York Times editorial that accused him of lobbying against a controversial intelligence-reform bill backed by President George W. Bush...
Critics say that more often than not she simply has settled into orbit around the real power centers of U.S. foreign policy: Vice President Dick Cheney and his ally Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. "She's getting this job because she's not a threat," says retired Lieut. General William Odom of the conservative Hudson Institute. When Rice tried to impose order on prewar planning, Rumsfeld ignored her. Vice President Cheney established a broad and powerful shadow National Security Council early in the Administration and used his close relationship with Bush to drive White House decision making. Yet some foreign diplomats...
Rice's biggest task in her current job is still unfinished: overseeing postwar-Iraq reconstruction. A year ago she publicly wrested control of that portfolio from Rumsfeld and, with her deputy Robert Blackwill, took a pragmatic approach, accommodating popular religious leaders' demands for an early transfer of sovereignty and nationwide elections. That bought the U.S. some goodwill but increased the chances of a pro-Iran regime taking power...
...Secretary of Defense has a dreadful track record when it comes to intelligence. In Bush's first term, Rumsfeld set up an Office of Special Plans in the Pentagon to challenge the CIA's cautious analysis of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction by touting the incendiary garbage provided by Iraqi exiles. That is, I suppose, a version of intelligence reform: a system in which fantasies are produced to support the President's policy preferences. But it is not the version proposed by the 9/11 commission-and it is time for Bush to make clear whether he supports...