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...pressure was also intense. Just the week before, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was in the region pressing the officers about why this was taking so long. Sitting in front of walls lined with maps and flat video screens, Rumsfeld marveled at the elusiveness of the quarry. ?I?m dumbfounded when I think about it,? he told Army Major General Raymond Odierno, commander of the 4th Infantry. ?The chances of us using that kind of money to find somebody - to figure out how to invest some time and develop a network and produce the information that would do it - I mean...
...President George W. Bush first got word from Rumsfeld on Saturday afternoon in a call to Camp David. ?We think we may have him,? Rumsfeld announced, and the President said to keep him informed. The President had already planned to return to the White House early to avoid a snowstorm descending on the mid-Atlantic coast that could have prevented his attending a special Christmas show taping the next day. Bush called Adnan Pachachi, the acting president of the Iraqi governing council, to congratulate him; as they were trying to get him on the cell phone Pachachi was with Bremer...
...while back, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld dubbed the insurgents who are making life so difficult for coalition forces, Iraqi authorities and anyone caught in the cross fire "dead-enders," losers from Saddam Hussein's regime with nothing left to do but go down fighting. U.S. military officials said the enemy fighters lacked organization and coordination. No one would say any of this now. American officials acknowledge that the insurgents are a potent and increasingly structured force. A former Saddam aide who is close to insurgents in Anbar province, west of Baghdad, agrees. What were once dispersed cells are now meeting...
...leaked memo, secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld wrote that "the coalition can win in Afghanistan and Iraq ... but it will be a long hard slog" [Nov. 3]. The memo shows that Rumsfeld intends to have it both ways. If the U.S. is successful in Iraq, he gets all the credit. If Iraq is a disaster, he can say, "I told you so!" EVELYN WOTHERSPOON Calgary...
...Rumsfeld is firing parting shots as he begins his long exit from the Bush Administration. He knows he will not be Defense Secretary after this President's current term in office ends. Rumsfeld is going to do it his way. JEFF MORGAN Rochester, Minn...