Word: rumsfeldism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...that Bush is to blame for everything from the Ku Klux Klan, to eviction notices, to Osama Bin Laden. The most troubling image in the entire video is actually of Bin Laden, who is revealed to be a paper tiger on a soundstage along with Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. This attitude, conflating one of the most dangerous and determined enemies we have ever faced with a harmless fabrication, is precisely the kind of dangerous naiveté that allowed September 11th to happen in the first place...
...Paul Wolfowitz told the Senate Armed Services Committee he “would certainly think it was worthwhile” for the U.S. to invade Iraq to achieve regime change. In those heady early days of Bush’s reign, Wolfowitz and fellow administration neocons Armitage, Perle and Rumsfeld tirelessly pushed for the U.S. to arm and lead an Iraqi opposition in toppling Saddam...
...mandate for the humane treatment of prisoners should never be qualified, especially by vague phrases like “to the extent appropriate with military necessity.” Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, like Bush, used such characteristically vague language in a memorandum released in April 2003, in which he approved 24 techniques of interrogation. The memorandum states that prisoners may be interrogated in settings “that may be less comfortable” but do not “constitute a substantial change in environmental quality.” Such language is too vague to prevent inhumane methods...
...outrage that torture has been so widespread under Rumsfeld’s watch. Rumsfeld and the Bush administration must take responsibility for the dehumanizing acts that have taken place at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, and they must make sure that the use of torture has been completely and permanently stopped. As long as detainees’ rights are violated, we desecrate principles integral to our American identity—the same principles that we are supposed to be defending by waging a war on terror...
...even if the Administration succeeds in remaking the military, the failure to bolster troop levels carries grave short-term risks. In August, a classified study requested by Rumsfeld concluded that there are "inadequate total numbers" of U.S. troops to maintain the current pace of operations around the world. Some military experts fear that if a crisis erupted with Iran and North Korea, the U.S. would be unable to credibly threaten the use of force because of its obligations in Iraq and Afghanistan. "We can't respond to another major crisis right now," says retired Army General Barry McCaffrey. "We have...