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...large American peacekeeping deployment in Iraq was the last thing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld wanted when he was planning the war. He and his deputy, Wolfowitz, hoped to bolster postwar security by redeploying elements of Iraq's 400,000 troops to supplement the relatively small invading force. With Saddam gone, the plan was for Iraq's civil servants and police to step in to help run the country while a U.S.-chosen governing council handled the nitty-gritty of administration until democracy blossomed...
...occupation of Iraq as the Super Bowl of jihad. The Pentagon apparently calculated that as the country settled down and its oil spigots opened and helped finance reconstruction, resistance would quickly be marginalized. Even after it became clear this summer that attacks on allied troops were intensifying, Rumsfeld described them as the exertions of a few Baathist "dead-enders." Yet a pair of Army studies published before the war cautioned that the goodwill of Iraqis would be fleeting and violent nationalism rife--that things, in short, could quickly become messy. "There were a lot of people in the Army...
...find it appalling that in his interview with TIME, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said we have adequate military forces. That is not true. My husband was injured while blowing up enemy munitions. The doctors recommended that he come home to heal, but the company commander said he couldn't afford to lose him. I don't know where Rumsfeld gets his information, but mine comes from the trenches. The soldiers are saying they have had enough, they want to come home, and they are tired of doing the work of 10 men. The forces are not "adequate." LISA CORDELL Fort...
...course President Bush and Secretary Rumsfeld don't want to send more troops to Iraq--certainly not before the national elections next year. They are content to keep sacrificing our people. Let's send Rumsfeld! BOB BERKE Oakland, Calif...
Bush administration officials appeared unusually concerned, this week, to distance themselves from the suggestion that Saddam Hussein had any connection to the September 11 terror attacks. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and President Bush himself all went on record stressing that there was no evidence linking Iraq to the attacks - despite the fact that 70 percent of Americans believe Saddam was involved. That erroneous belief may, of course, be one reason for the administration's sudden concern to set the record straight. Because, as Vice President Dick Cheney put it on Sunday, "it's not surprising...