Word: rumsfeldism
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...studios are releasing 66 features this holiday season, up from an already ginormous 58 last year. (Just on their own, Cate Blanchett and Kate Winslet seem to be starring in about 30 of them.) Who has the spare time to consume all this fabulous entertainment, other than Donald Rumsfeld...
...Today was the first and only day of confirmation hearings for [Rumsfeld's] replacement Robert Gates. The committee immediately confirmed the guy. They really only had one question: Are you now or have you ever been Donald Rumsfeld? He said...
...Republicans' reluctance to criticize the report is understandable. Many Republicans in both the Senate and House believe they're now in the minority because of the failed war - and Bush's refusal to fire Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld until after the November elections, instead of before, when the move might have saved some of their seats. "Iraq is the anchor around the Administration's ankle," says a senior GOP aide. "A lot of our guys are going to let the Administration take the heat...
After four years of rosy predictions and verbal sparring from Donald Rumsfeld over the Iraq war, Democrats on the Senate Armed Services Committee were desperate for some candor out of the man George Bush has picked to replace him - and that's what they got with Bob Gates's confirmation hearing Tuesday. After five hours of open testimony from the former CIA chief, the committee voted 21-0 in closed session to recommend that Gates's nomination be approved...
...response to another question from Levin, Gates indicated that he would be open to modest troop withdrawals to force the Iraqi political leadership to take on more responsibility for security. "All options are on the table," Gates said. He also was not shy about suggesting that Rumsfeld had made misjudgments in the Iraq war. Asked by Republican John McCain, a likely 2008 presidential candidate, if the Pentagon had too few troops in Iraq at the outset - something the senator has long argued - Gates agreed. "There clearly were insufficient troops in Iraq after the initial invasion," the former CIA director said...