Word: rumsfeldism
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...Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld shrugged off any notion that Kim's confession augurs real change. "I don't think there's any way in the world anyone could say it's a good sign," he said. In the short term, hard-liners inside the Administration will resist rewarding Kim for giving up weapons. While the U.S. is not prepared to fight a three-front war, there are plenty of Bush advisers who believe North Korea's arsenal can't be dismantled without regime change--and they will come back to the argument once Iraq is behind them...
Makiya said that while the White House and Department of Defense under Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld are in favor of democratizing Iraq, other officials within the Bush administration prefer an unspecified alternative policy...
...deigned to make the other half of the argument, he would have described a nation that, although different, is hardly better. Both Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and the CIA suspect that North Korea already has “a small number” nuclear weapons ready and available for use, while they put Iraq at least a year away even if their most gloomy estimates. North Korea’s dastardly leader, Kim Jong Il, may have never used chemical weapons on his own, but he watched millions starve in the countryside while he diverted aid money intended...
...State James A. Kelly presented evidence in Pyongyang that North Korea had a program to enrich uranium - which is a prerequisite for nuclear weapons. Confronted with the proof, North Korean officials conceded they had "nullified" a 1994 deal with the U.S. to stop developing such warheads. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said he believed Pyongyang had a "small number" of nukes. But North Korea has not admitted to making one. The U.S. called on the Kim Jong Il regime "to eliminate its nuclear-weapons program in a verifiable manner," but didn't spell out what would happen if it refused. Bush...
...hard to see why the North Korea script is so different from the standoff with Iraq: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld confirmed Thursday that the U.S. believes North Korea already has two bombs built from plutonium produced before the 1994 agreement took its reactors offline. It may also have as much as 500 tons of chemical and biological agents. But even without unconventional weapons, North Korea's artillery and medium-range missiles give it the capability to flatten most of Seoul in a matter of minutes. Analysts suggest that an all-out war along the Korean frontier could cost a million...