Word: rumsfeldism
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Next stop Tehran? Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who backs a policy of regime-change in in Iran, on Tuesday charged that the country is harboring al-Qaeda members, trying to remake Iraq in its own image (thus undermining U.S. efforts to do the same) and developing nuclear weapons. Sound familiar? It should; similar charges were used to justify the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, and the fact that Rumsfeld is making them in the wake of a Bush administration decision to end high-level back-channel talks with Tehran and on the eve of a reported White House policy review...
...Rumsfeld would have a tough time convincing even the most loyal of U.S. allies to go to war with Iran - and not only because almost two months after Saddam's overthrow, no evidence has yet emerged to conclusively validate the WMD and al-Qaeda charges against Iraq. Even the Bush administration's most loyal ally, Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair, may be inclined to take a more nuanced view than Rumsfeld. Britain does, after all, maintain diplomatic ties with Tehran and has engaged actively with Iran in the hope of promoting the country's reform movement...
...West Point, Hunt had been first in his class and later served on the staff of the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe. He was a man who paid appropriate attention to morale, logistics, supplies and technology. If, like me, you listened to General Tommy Franks and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld blather on about their "plan" during the Iraq war and wondered what such a thing might look like, then you should read Appendix III of Hunt's book, which in nine crisp pages ("Memorandum: Basis for Planning") shows why good soldiers are not - cannot be - fools...
...Intelligence Agency is trying to figure out, among other things, how we came to the questionable conclusion that Saddam Hussein possessed massive stocks of illegal weapons. The CIA will surely look into the activities of the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans, an intelligence nodule created by Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, to provide a hawkish counterforce against the other spy services. The Pentagon's extreme threat assessment, which relied heavily on dubious reports from Iraqi defectors, carried the day in the White House...
...months of looking, U.S. forces have yet to turn up any quantity of WMD, vast or otherwise, which explains why Fleischer and his counterparts at the State and Defense departments rarely mention Saddam's illegal weapons unless asked by reporters. In another recalibration last week, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld insisted that no one in the administration had ever said that there were nuclear weapons in Iraq, though Vice President Cheney had claimed just that...