Word: rumsfeldism
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...voted against him, that he is indeed a leader.” In a Sept. 25 Wall Street Journal Op-Ed, Posner stressed that Bush “has converted many of us to admirers, and he deserves our complete support. The entire administration, from Colin Powell to Donald Rumsfeld to Dick Cheney, inspires more confidence as we embark on this uncertain war than we likely would have had in any Gore administration...
Unfortunately, our escalating worries may not be entirely unwarranted. On Monday, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld warned of the possibility of a biological attack on the United States. Society’s standard defense against such attacks—that no one would be so inhuman as to carry them out—holds less currency now that we have seen terrorists make deadly weapons of passenger planes. Experts believe that the use of biological weapons could potentially present an even greater threat to human existence than nuclear weapons did a few decades...
Within hours of the World Trade Center collapsing, the U.S. began pointing fingers at Osama bin Laden. And within days of those accusations, the Bush administration began talking of the "evidence" against bin Laden. Colin Powell has talked about it. Donald Rumsfeld has talked about it. President Bush has talked about it. The past two weeks have been dotted with press conferences, international committee meetings, lengthy legal discussions, all focused on one question: Where is the evidence of bin Laden's guilt...
...plan makes him bipartisan. Rumsfeld and Powell are keeping up the GOP?s end on foreign policy, but Bush knows the Republican Party doesn?t have a ton of credibility when it comes to the economy and Social Security and the national debt, and nobody?s in the mood right now to take a flyer on the rich people letting it trickle down. When it comes to the economy, do what Bob Rubin would do, and spread it around. Let businesses come around when they?re ready...
...policy of "regime change" in Baghdad, Wolfowitz has been convinced of Iraq's menace since long before the Gulf War. In 1979, as an analyst in the Pentagon, he authored a secret report warning of Saddam's dangerous ambitions. Now, supported by his boss, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and by Cheney's chief of staff Lewis (Scooter) Libby, Wolfowitz argued for a far-reaching military response beyond anything Powell had envisioned. Targets would include not only Saddam's regime but also other states that have supported terrorism in the past, like Syria and Iran...