Word: rumsfeldism
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...need to go through the United Nations before marching on Baghdad. But Powell pitched it cleverly, says a senior State Department official, in a way that showed "how it would work without limiting the President's options." Vice President Dick Cheney reluctantly agreed, as did Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and then George W. Bush. After a long summer of internal commotion over Iraq, Powell scored his biggest...
...wells drilled 60 ft. deep across the rural landscape and stocks chemical components in residential basements and palace bunkers. Labs for cooking up new toxins and germs are mounted on specially converted commercial trucks that cruise Iraqi highways to foil pursuers. "His weapons-of-mass-destruction capabilities are mobile," Rumsfeld said last week. "They can be hidden from inspectors no matter how intrusive." Hardest of all to get rid of are the notebooks and computer hard drives filled with biochem recipes and nuclear designs that Saddam's scientists have compiled over the years. Even if all of Saddam's germ...
...Iraq—and the United States would be hard pressed not to at least give them a chance—it could be as long as eight months before the inspectors made preliminary conclusions, according to a report in the Washington Post. Already Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld has tried to salvage the failure by calling on Congress to give the go-ahead for war regardless of any U.N. resolutions. Without immediate action, Bush will lose the use of the Iraqi invasion as a political weapon in the midterm elections. Bush’s bargain for any semblance...
...mortal danger. Bush has poured scorn on the idea of Saddam ever coming into compliance with UN resolutions, insisted that Congress declare its support for a war and warned the United Nations that it faces a choice between authorizing military action against Iraq, and geopolitical oblivion. Defense Secretary Rumsfeld on Wednesday told Congress that "no terrorist state poses a greater and more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world than the regime of Saddam Hussein." Such language gives the administration little room for retreat from the warpath...
...White House had to have factored in the possibility of Saddam submitting to inspections when it first took the matter back to the UN - administration hawks such as Vice President Cheney and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld had long warned that reviving the inspection regime could prove a dangerous distraction to the Administration's efforts to get rid of the regime in Baghdad. Yet without going the UN route first, even the loyal Tony Blair might not have been able to sustain his support for a war in the face of overwhelming domestic opposition...