Word: rumsfeldism
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...stand for 8-10 hours a day. Why is standing limited to 4 hours?" DONALD RUMSFELD, U.S. Secretary of Defense, in a handwritten note on a newly released memo in which he approved interrogation techniques for Guant?namo detainees that included standing for up to four hours. Rumsfeld works at a stand-up desk...
...Defense Command (NORAD) never actually relayed Cheney's command to its pilots in the air, some of whom were seeking a jet, American Airlines Flight 11, that had earlier crashed into the World Trade Center. So pronounced was the state of confusion that Cheney told Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld during a conference call at 10:39 a.m. that he believed the U.S. had "already taken a couple of aircraft...
...Presumably the Secretary of Defense doesn't do his standing naked, continuously, in the middle of the night, surrounded by hostile guards and attack dogs. But then, Rumsfeld's blustery testosteronics are at the heart of what has gone wrong with the Bush foreign policy-and last week the assorted temper tantrums appeared to be a leading indicator of a gathering summer storm confronting this presidency...
...said it any better-and this book was vetted by CIA censors. In fact, the views of Anonymous are an accurate reflection of the opinions I've heard from multiple intelligence sources. The spooks seem to believe that outgoing CIA Director George Tenet was strong-armed by Cheney and Rumsfeld into overassessing Iraq's WMD capacity. This may or may not be true, but it is the conventional wisdom in the intelligence community. Furthermore, there is intense anger over the White House's revealing the identity of Plame, who may have been active in a sting operation involving the trafficking...
...military has made no secret of its fury with Rumsfeld and his coterie of neoconservatives at the Pentagon. Rumsfeld has been faulted for committing too few troops and too little planning to postwar Iraq. Returning National Guard leaders have been telling their congressional representatives about chaos in the field. There is also some rustling among the brass about General Tommy Franks' memoir, to be published in August. Bob Woodward reported that Franks once called Under Secretary of Defense Douglas Feith, who was charged with postwar planning, "the [Cheney expletive] stupidest guy on the face of the earth," and some defense...