Word: rumsfeldism
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...image of General Rove drawing up war plans exists mostly in the imagination of Democrats who fear and loathe the man. Insiders swear that Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Colin Powell wouldn't stand for interference from a political operative. Superhawks Cheney and Rumsfeld didn't need Rove to tell them to target Saddam, and Powell has warned the White House that he doesn't expect to receive, and won't accept, phone calls from Rove...
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said yesterday that the administration had evidence both that Saddam Hussein was developing nuclear weapons and that he had funded chemical weapons training for al Qaeda operatives...
...become only fiercer—exactly the opposite of what one would expect if Bush truly desired a diplomatic solution. In early August, an Iraqi envoy invited U.N. officials to Baghdad to discuss the resumption of weapons inspections. Within hours, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and other White House hawks raced each other to the television cameras to promise that the U.S. would invade Iraq whether or not U.N. inspections were allowed to resume. Even as Iraq agreed on Tuesday to the unconditional readmission of weapons inspectors, the Bush administration has already attempted to sabotage...
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s recent announcement that he will strike back if Iraq attacks Israel marks a major shift in Israeli thinking since the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld has spoken out against the policy change, saying that it would be in Israel’s best interests not to get involved. But Israel is a sovereign nation; it unquestionably has the right to defend itself from an Iraqi strike...
...weapons inspectors, who have been barred since 1998. Although many of our jittery European and Arab allies pounced on that glimmer of hope, it is clear they are once again being misled—and that, as both Secretary of State Colin Powell and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld have said, they are being fooled by a Hussein “ploy.” Following Bush’s speech, world opinion had slowly begun turning back in America's favor, to the point where Saudi Arabia had said that we could use their bases to launch military attacks...