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...really, you say, but what about that wildly idealistic Inaugural Address the President delivered two weeks ago? What about the continued power and influence of Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld? No doubt, Bush's speech will stand as the template for this Administration's future rhetoric, but sometimes politicians use high-minded oratory as tactical camouflage. In the Reagan White House, tough talk-"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"-set the predicate for real diplomatic progress. This President is not one to announce a change of course, since that would imply a defective previous course. A moderate turn...
...oversaw the Office of Special Plans, which hyped evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq; a man whom General Tommy Franks once called "the dumbest f______ guy on the planet." To be sure, much of the neocon dream team survives at the Pentagon, but friends of Rumsfeld have noted that he is less enchanted with that crowd than he once was. The fact that the Weekly Standard, the prime neocon media outlet, slags Rumsfeld just about every week is a sign that the neos aren't too thrilled with him anymore either...
When it comes to spying, Donald Rumsfeld is an impatient man. The Defense Secretary hated having to wait for CIA spooks to make arrangements with Afghanistan's warlords before his special-operations commandos could infiltrate the country ahead of the 2001 U.S. invasion. These days Rumsfeld is even less inclined to depend on the CIA. Instead, he is pushing his generals to field a larger and more aggressive clandestine force to spy on terrorists worldwide and attack them...
...honest answer from Rumsfeld would have gone like this: "You lack armor because we are incompetent. We expected smiles and flowers, not improvised explosive devices, suicide bombers, hatred and looting. We ignored the generals who said we would need 200,000 troops. Now you must pay for our miscalculations with your lives and limbs. Sorry." Richard Phelan McGregor, Texas...
...American soldiers, who must serve under a Secretary of Defense whose blend of supreme arrogance, utter ignorance and blinding incompetence puts them at such terrible and unnecessary risk. Surely even the most cursory acquaintance with The Art of War, the martial primer by Sun Tzu, would have taught Rumsfeld that if you don't have the army you might want, then you don't go to war. How dare he put the Administration's vendetta ahead of the welfare of his troops. Kenneth J. Wiebe Chilliwack, Canada...