Word: rumsfeldism
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...Faith Sleeper, a senior at American University, as she stood beside a group of security guards. Sleeper spent Election Night watching returns and munching on elephant-shaped cookies with other Republicans on her campus. Following Bush’s remarks, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and other high-ranking Republican officials walked through a row of cheering onlookers as they exited the building...
...Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld went before the Senate and House Armed Services Committees to explain his department’s role in the prisoner abuses exposed at Abu Ghraib. In his testimony, he made the pledge that “everyone in Iraq who was a military person” would be “treated subject to the Geneva Conventions...
...Rumsfeld was lying, or at least bending the truth. The Bush administration has long held—much to the dismay of the world—that militants fighting for international terror organizations such as Al Qaeda, are unlawful combatants, and thus not subject to the protections of any international agreements. Indeed, of the dozen non-Iraqis removed from Iraq, all of them reportedly had links to terror groups or had entered Iraq after the invasion in March 2003 to engage in terror or aid the insurgency. But defining fighters as unlawful combatants is a slippery slope to descend...
...comment started what could be the end of her career. On the agenda was the awarding of an up to $7 billion deal to a subsidiary of Houston-based conglomerate Halliburton to restore Iraq's oil facilities. On hand were senior officials from the office of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and aides to retired Lieut. General Jay Garner, who would soon become the first U.S. administrator in Iraq. Then several representatives from Halliburton entered. Greenhouse, a top contracting specialist for the Army Corps of Engineers, grew increasingly concerned that they were privy to internal discussions of the contract's terms...
...financial networks, the Iranian nuclear program? What are the priorities? Should we use foreign aid to counter the Saudi-funded network of radical Islamist schools, or would the money be better spent buying up the former Soviet Union's nuclear arsenal? Some of these questions were raised by Donald Rumsfeld in a memo last year. There has been no effort to answer them...