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...flexible and wants to get the job done. He always asked incisive questions, and knows what went wrong in Iraq." - on Robert Gates, when he replaced Donald Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense, San Jose Mercury News...
...president leaves.” The incredible progress that has been achieved in Iraq and Afghanistan is evident in the lives that their citizens now live as peace and freedom take root. While there was a worldwide intelligence failure and there were postwar planning and strategic mistakes under Secretary Rumsfeld in Iraq, the strategy was adjusted and we may soon see a fountain of democracy in an otherwise turbulent Middle East. In addition to the politically historic progress of the democratically adopted Status Of Forces Agreement between the U.S. and Iraq, Iraqis’ quality of life has improved. According...
...Shortly before the Iraq war began, White House economic adviser Larry Lindsey earned a rebuke from within the Administration when he said the war could cost as much as $200 billion. "It's not knowable what a war or conflict like that would cost," Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld said. "You don't know if it's going to last two days or two weeks or two months. It certainly isn't going to last two years...
...President Bush, Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz were conspicuously absent from Shinseki's retirement ceremony...
...praise for Shinseki, 66, needs to be calibrated. While he believed that more troops were needed in post-invasion Iraq, he didn't believe it strongly enough to lay down his four stars and resign. His supporters tend to overlook just how meek his public challenge to Rumsfeld was. He never volunteered it. Senator Carl Levin had to extract it from him, slowly and painfully, during a Senate hearing. That's when, in February 2003, Shinseki said he felt that "something on the order of several hundred thousand soldiers" would be needed. Forty-eight hours later, it was the derisive...