Word: rumsfeldism
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...Franks, who would direct any operation against Iraq. Last week 1,000 U.S. and British troops stationed at the top-secret Camp As Sayliyah--just 700 miles south of Baghdad--took part in a virtual war game called Internal Look. They also received a visit from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who hobnobbed with soldiers and signed an agreement with local officials for the upgrading of Qatari bases used by the Pentagon. Asked by a servicewoman if Iraq will cooperate sufficiently with U.N. weapons inspectors to avert war, Rumsfeld was characteristically cagey: "It would be kind of out of line...
...months after he broke with George W. Bush on Iraq, urging him to stay focused on the war against terrorism before going after Saddam Hussein, Scowcroft is speaking out again. This time he's tangling with an old colleague from the Nixon and Ford years, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld...
...eavesdropping ships as well as old-fashioned spies and spooks--in the hands of the CIA director rather than spread it over 14 competing federal agencies. Scowcroft chaired a yearlong study on the subject and sent his report to the President in March. There it collects dust, largely because Rumsfeld, the hyperpopular Pentagon chief, refuses to give up military control of intelligence budgets or assets. At a black-tie Washington dinner last week, when he presented an award to CIA director George Tenet, Scowcroft broke cover again. "For years, we had a poorly organized intelligence system," he said...
...pack of lies, it is suddenly warning against hasty conclusions. "The thing to do is to not prejudge it, be patient and expect that it will take days and weeks probably to go over, and come to some judgments about it, said arch-hawk Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld. It's not as if the document had blindsided Washington - the table of contents, already leaked to the media by U.S. officials on Monday despite the priority supposedly given to maintaining the declaration's security, makes clear that the only weapons programs Iraq is acknowledging are those terminated under the previous inspection...
...deadline for cracking down on terrorism financiers. Senior aides insisted that Bush had no plans to issue an ultimatum, and Rice and CIA Director George Tenet demanded that the FBI launch a criminal investigation to find out who leaked the report. Meanwhile, every Administration heavy from Donald Rumsfeld to Colin Powell rushed to defend Bandar and the Saudis...