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...much of the three and a half years of the Iraq war, top-level military officers like CENTCOM Commander Gen. John Abziaid mostly stood by mutely while Bush and now-departed Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld repeatedly said the commanders in Iraq were orchestrating the military strategy on the ground. (The message: if the war isn't going well, ask the generals why.) The Joint Chiefs of Staff - the top officers of all four services and the Chairman and Vice Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - never aggressively challenged Rumsfeld's micromanaging. Nor did they object when Rumsfeld broke...
...those who thought that the war would be a cakewalk. Everyone knows now that the U.S. went into Iraq way too light, with too few troops and no plan for after the shooting stopped. In Powell's first interview in a year - coming just a few days after Don Rumsfeld's over-the-top farewell at the Pentagon - Powell reminded me all over again how inept the Rumsfeld war plan...
...Donald Rumsfeld...
...DONALD RUMSFELD, former U.S. Secretary of Defense, predicting in April that calls from retired generals for him to step down would fade away. Seven months later, Rumsfeld resigned...
...DECIDER n. A self-coined sobriquet for Bush, who bestowed the label on himself when explaining his initial rejection of calls for Donald Rumsfeld to step down as Secretary of Defense...