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...conversation turns to the framed photo collage Kabala made for his room, a trinity of President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Kimball argues that Secretary of State Colin Powell would be more a suitable choice for the triumvirate than Rumsfeld...
...though the outcome is certain, the path to that outcome is still uncertain. The coming days may yet bring more U.S. and British casualties, particularly as Coalition forces enter Baghdad, and undoubtedly some civilians will be killed as well. Despite such tragedies, we must remember, as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has reminded us, that U.S. troops are going to unprecedented lengths to avoid harming innocent Iraqi men, women and children. The blame for most civilian deaths will lie squarely at the feet of a barbaric enemy who uses them as human shields. We must stay resolute in our assured knowledge...
Remember the President George W. Bush of August or September, when the Iraq debacle was gearing up? He had a tough decision to make: Side with Colin Powell, advocate for the U.N., or go with Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. On Sept. 12, to many hawks’ dismay, he chose the path too often taken; he gave a speech to the U.N., benevolently bestowing the world body power and legitimacy that it did not have in the first place. Instead of simply seeking to expedite the stated U.S. policy of ousting Saddam, a dovish Bush acquiesced to the Security...
...bunkers reinforced with steel, stocked with weapons and linked to underground escape tunnels--the architectural metaphor for a dictatorship whose grandiose facade has rested on a foundation of insecurity. As U.S. bombs blasted apart those last-resort fortifications, even Saddam presumably had to take U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld seriously when he declared, "The days of the Saddam Hussein regime are numbered...
...stunning as its precision: from the reluctance to use maximum force for the first few nights to the patient efforts to secure a mass surrender to the decision--even after the awesome bombing began--to leave the electricity in Baghdad untouched and the public infrastructure intact. Donald Rumsfeld at war seems far more tactful than Donald Rumsfeld in peace...