Source: salon.com
Sidney Blumenthal: The former president's secret campaign to oust the secretary of defense was rebuffed by President Bush, a source says.
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A Defense Department investigation of Pentagon-financed propaganda efforts in Iraq warns that paying Iraqi journalists to produce positive stories could damage American credibility and calls for an end to military payments to a group of Iraqi journalists in Baghdad, according to …
Source: smh.com.au
The Bush Administration has consistently denied suggestions that it "cooked" intelligence to justify the Iraq war.
Source: roanoke.com
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told cadets graduating from Virginia Military Institute to be proud of their military education and use their knowledge to seek out challenges that will benefit themselves, others and America as a whole.
Source: afterdowningstreet.org
Ray McGovern wasn't aiming to make Donald Rumsfeld stutter and stammer like a kid caught cheating on a test when he asked him last week why he'd lied us into a war. That was just a side benefit.
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Tuesday acknowledged a past disagreement with Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden but backed the nominee to head the CIA while ridiculing the notion of a Pentagon "power grab" over intelligence functions.
Source: salon.com
If you want further confirmation that the US bungled the Iraq invasion, Michael Gordon and Gen Bernard Trainor have written the book for you.
Source: nytimes.com
It is bad enough that Donald Rumsfeld and others did not tell Americans the full truth — to take the best-case situation — before the war. But they are still doing it.
Source: democracynow.org
Amy Goodman: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld comes under fire from retired CIA analyst Ray McGovern at a speech in Atlanta on Thursday. Rumsfeld was interrupted by protesters several times in his address. We speak with McGovern and play excerpts from the event.
Source: The Ornery American
"Rumsfeld had an agenda, partly derived from President Bush and partly from his own experience in the past. Rumsfeld knew that the military, if left to itself, would choke on its own institutional debris.
Source: boston.com
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld faced tough questions and hecklers during a stormy speech in Atlanta on Thursday, with former CIA analyst, Ray McGovern, accusing him of lying his way into the Iraq war.
Source: thinkprogress.org
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The speech got an early jolt from a protester, who was escorted out of the audience after holding up a banner reading, "Guilty of War Crimes!" The woman shouted, "This man needs to be in prison for war crimes."
Source: charlotte.com
Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer wrote Friday in The Washington Post that the retired generals' decision to dissent publicly against the government goes against American tradition.
Source: chron.com
Batiste, a retired Army major general, commanded the First U.S. Infantry Division in Iraq. He is now president of Klein Steel Service Inc. in Rochester, N.Y. This article originally appeared in The Washington Post.
Source: guardian.co.uk
The Guantánamo abuses wouldn't stop were Donald Rumsfeld to go - politicians must be made accountable in other ways...
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Iran: A Rummy Guide : To borrow a phrase used for Iraq, there are 'things we now know we don't know.' NEWSWEEK sorts it out.
Source: news.independent.co.uk
The Iraq war has already cost the United States $320bn (£180bn), according to an authoritative new report, and even if a troop withdrawal begins this year, the conflict is set to be more expensive in real terms than the Vietnam War, a generation ago.
Source: newyorker.com
"...There’s nothing new, let alone unconstitutional, about the @!$%#ing of pensioned-off generals. What is unusual—unprecedented, apparently—is for so many to speak out so strongly against a prominent architect of an ongoing war and to demand his removal.
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Source: salon.com
GOP Sen Mike DeWine is worried enough about Bush's low approval ratings that he blasted Rumsfeld in an interview. Will the Democrats be able to take control of the state that swung the presidency last time?
Source: boston.com
Defense Secretary Donald H Rumsfeld has approved the military's most ambitious plan yet to fight terrorism around the world and retaliate more rapidly and decisively in the event of another major terrorist attack on the United States, according to defense officials.
Source: smh.com.au
Sydney, NSW, is a long way from Washington DC but, even at this distance, it is clear that the Bush Administration is falling to pieces.
Source: timesonline
Whose idea was it to go to Iraq? Well just about any of the so-called neo-Cons in the administration, but the man who famously put his hand up first was Donald Rumsfeld, who on the very day of the 9/11 attacks wondered whether America shouldn’t use them as a reason to attack Ira
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