Word: rumsfeldism
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...being spent. Case in point: the Marine Corps, traditionally the most frugal of the services, has borne the brunt of the burden of fighting in Iraq, yet has seen billions pared from its funding. The Marines' new special-ops unit--a pet project of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's--wanted $65 million for such equipment as sophisticated nightscopes and computer-mapping systems, but the Administration refused the request. The Marines are still flying around Iraq in Vietnam-era helicopters--yet $1 billion was cut from the program for the choppers' only replacement aircraft, the V-22 Osprey. The Marines were...
...Despite the intense pressure, however, al-Qahtani had still provided almost no important intelligence. So, eager to extract information from a prisoner identified as a key al-Qaeda operative, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld personally authorized a series of harsh interrogation techniques for al-Qahtani...
...Concern about the legality of some of those methods - which included the use of dogs, as well as sexual and religious humiliation, sleep and sensory deprivation and prolonged isolation - prompted the Pentagon to outlaw their use in January 2003, barely one month after Rumsfeld first gave permission to use them...
...some ways inevitable. For weeks, there had been speculation that Bush would use the occasion to visit Afghanistan - a country that the president had never visited but that his wife, Laura, had, as well as Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. At some point it probably would have become embarrassing for the White House if the President were the only top-ranking official not to visit the country to which he had dispatched thousands of American troops. Eventually Bush?s absence would only have highlighted the fragile security situation in the country...
...trial. Most of the prisoners currently held at Guantanamo were captured during the invasion of Afghanistan which began in October 2001. Many “Gitmo” detainees have been held for four years without a trial or even the prospect of attaining justice. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld expressed his disagreement with the commission’s report last Friday, saying that “Gitmo” hosts “several hundred terrorists, bad people, people that if let back out on the field would try to kill Americans. That’s just a fact...