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...that term in its broadest sense, to stand for all of those in a U.S. uniform who go in harm's way, including the Navy's sailors, the airmen and women of the Air Force, and the Marines. By the way, when I and several other editors met with Rumsfeld at the Pentagon in November to talk about the war, he made the pitch, unsolicited by us, that the Person of the Year should be the American soldier. (Or as he put it, the American volunteer...
...Michael Ware and Phil Zabriskie, photo-operations manager Bill Kalis and photographer Yuri Kozyrev stayed with them and helped organize their departure for a U.S. military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany. At the same time, Washington bureau chief Michael Duffy and senior correspondent Mark Thompson set aside the profile of Rumsfeld they were co-writing to press the Pentagon for assistance and information on transferring Jim and Michael out of Iraq. By Friday, enough had been established for Michele Stephenson, director of photography, and Howard Chua-Eoan, news director, to fly to Germany to meet our two wounded colleagues...
...thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe." DONALD RUMSFELD, Defense Secretary, in response to a question about European efforts to slow the U.S. march against Iraq...
...seemed clear that former Secretary of State James Baker was doing more in Europe last week than negotiating debt relief for Iraq. A more likely project was the continuation of negotiations recently begun by Colin Powell and Donald Rumsfeld to produce a grand bargain with the recalcitrants--France, Germany, Russia--that would involve increased military and financial participation by the allies in return for U.N. supervision of the transition to a new government. Baker, I am told, was furious over the Pentagon memo that limited reconstruction contracts in Iraq to countries that had been part of the "coalition...
...there was also the possibility that the Bush Administration was racked by its never ending ideological battle over unilateral action. The State Department was firmly in favor of an international deal. Defense Secretary Rumsfeld was said to be ready to shed the burdens of local governance in Iraq. The Coalition Provisional Authority was divided--but L. Paul Bremer told Senator Hillary Clinton that he favored U.N. involvement in the selection of a new government. The Vice President remains skeptical about any U.N. role. The President, however, may be turning away from the hard-liners and toward a more pragmatic approach...