Word: rumsfeldism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...daily briefings, but behind closed doors, even the President's top advisers were worried. They--no one will say who exactly--started kicking around the idea of putting more troops on the ground. "People started worrying that we were on the same track the Soviets had been on," says Rumsfeld, "[and] some people in the neighboring countries were characterizing it as being bogged down." But at a meeting in late October, the President stopped the debate, aides said. "We did all agree on the plan, didn't we?" he asked the table. Everyone nodded. He turned to Franks and asked...
...task of stabilizing Kandahar may eventually fall to American troops, but U.S. commanders made clear that their top priority in the region was the capture of Omar. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld stopped short of an ironclad demand that Omar be turned over to U.S. troops once he is caught, but warned that American support for the new government hinged on its finding Omar and meting out a sufficient punishment. Karzai told TIME that Omar will "face trial in Afghanistan for his crimes. But first, we'll have to provide enough solid evidence for a case against him." That comment...
...task of stabilizing Kandahar may eventually fall to American troops, but U.S. commanders made clear that their top priority in the region was the capture of Omar. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld stopped short of an ironclad demand that Omar be turned over to U.S. troops once he is caught, but warned that American support for the new government hinged on its finding Omar and meting out a sufficient punishment. Karzai told TIME that Omar will "face trial in Afghanistan for his crimes. But first, we'll have to provide enough solid evidence for a case against him." That comment...
...character was indeed bin Laden. Officers at the CIA's "bin Laden station," which has been poring over the wealth of documents, artifacts and computer files found in al-Qaeda compounds in Afghanistan, then had to satisfy themselves that the recording had not been doctored. And Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld insisted on a thorough translation- vetted by outside experts- before the tape was released. Officials also checked the recording for coded signals to al-Qaeda cells. "It doesn't appear that it was designed for that purpose," says a senior intelligence official...
...Northern Alliance hands. Interrogating prisoners can be deadly dangerous; it was in just such circumstances that CIA agent Johnny Micheal Spann died two Sundays ago. "They are people who don't walk up and volunteer their names and identification numbers with a sample of DNA," noted Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. "They blend into the other prisoners. It's a messy business...