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...that context, keeping Donald Rumsfeld makes sense for the President even if the calls for him to leave grow louder. Replacing Rumsfeld is unlikely to change the situation in Iraq or raise the President's popularity, because the President seems uninterested in a new approach to the three-year-old war. Little wonder that on Tuesday, the President reasserted his support for the embattled secretary, telling reporters, "I hear the voices, and I read the front page, and I know the speculation. But I'm the decider, and I decide what is best. And what's best...
...human rights abuses worldwide, said yesterday that the United States should not legalize torture at a talk in Winthrop House yesterday. “Are we stopping and arresting more terrorists than we generate?” Kenneth Roth asked, paraphrasing the words of Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld. Roth told an audience of around 20 students that this particular question should shape U.S. policy-making about torture and terrorism. He said that if the United States allowed torture in certain circumstances it would generate the need to keep a torture squad in the country which overtime would...
...interview with TIME's Rebecca Myers, Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, puts in perspective the political firestorm surrounding Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld...
...President Bush's news conferences, where he affirms his faith in Rumsfeld, have the same impact as Lincoln's speech...
...Some of the criticisms against Rumsfeld, that he ignores his field commanders and has an arrogant management style - have other secretaries of defense or war been accused of similar shortcomings...