Department of Defense (Free subscription) | yesterday
... “It’s been an astonishing time to serve the nation under President Bush and alongside Secretaries Don Rumsfeld and Bob Gates, each of whom I greatly admire. I thank the brave men and women of our military, and their families, for their service and sacrifice, and for the honor of serving them.”
DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
Yesterday Fred Kaplan warned us about war criminal Don Rumsfeld's revisionist memoirs . They're not written yet put Kaplan is interpolating from the revisionist Op-Ed Rumsfeld did a few days ago for the NY Times . Rumsfeld hasn't been hauled before any war crimes tribunals yet and it's not likely he ever will be. Instead, he's busy with self-serving re-writes of history. His motivation...
Armchair Generalist (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
SHORTER Don Rumsfeld: "Based on the success of my prosecution of the war in Iraq, to include Teh Surge(TM), the US Govt ought to pursue the same strategy in Afghanistan." Honestly. Is there anyone else who doesn't instinctively think that...
NO QUARTER (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
... not lawyers and had no formal legal training: George Bush Dick Cheney George Tenet Colin Powell Don Rumsfeld Paul Wolfowitz Condi Rice So what? The Bush Administration has pursued a variety of policies that cause most legal scholars to recoil in horror. There are some highly classified, compartmented programs instituted by the Bush Administration that, when examined by lawyers with more...
NO QUARTER (Free subscription) | 11/23/2008
... Rice, was a complete disaster. She was the proverbial weak sister. She did nothing to rein in Don Rumsfeld or Dick Cheney. She failed in her main duty of coordinating the national security bureaucracy. It was Condi Rice who ignored the warnings of Richard Clarke about the need to step up efforts to deal with Bin Laden and Al Qaeda. It was Condi Rice who ignored the warnings in July 2001...
RAGGED THOTS (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
... paper -- the perception of George W. Bush's Cabinet when first named: Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, Don Rumsfeld, etc., as an All-Star squad of foreign policy adults that would keep the ship of state sailing in a calm direction under the untested George W. Bush. Obviously, things didn't quite work out that way. expands further on Obama's apparent decision to govern as a moderate -- including...
AgoraVox (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
... orders and harsh measures for people on the policy level. In practice, it’s pretty clear that Don Rumsfeld isn’t going to wind up in jail. Michael Isikoff Despite the hopes of many human-rights advocates, the new Obama Justice Department is not likely to launch major new criminal probes of harsh interrogations and other alleged abuses by the Bush administration. But one idea that has currency...
Prospect.org (Free subscription) | 11/21/2008
... quotient, dumping Iraq War skeptic Powell from his second-term Cabinet while clinging fast to Don Rumsfeld at the Defense Department. After the 2006 midterms came a partial rebalancing and administration policy characterized by improved security in Iraq but drift and paralysis in terms of America's larger strategic posture.
JoHNBRoDiGaNDoTCoM (Free subscription) | 11/22/2008
... where he held people accountable for fucking up. (And as a side note, the fact that he replaced Don Rumsfeld in 2006 instead of in…oh, I don’t know…2003, is the source of great anger for us at JBdotC HQ.) Then there’s Janet Napolitano, a Governor from a border state, for Homeland Security. She’s fore increased border security (though not “The Fence”), cracking down on employers who higher...
NO QUARTER (Free subscription) | 11/21/2008
... not lawyers and had no formal legal training: George Bush Dick Cheney George Tenet Colin Powell Don Rumsfeld Paul Wolfowitz Condi Rice So what? The Bush Administration has pursued a variety of policies that cause most legal scholars to recoil in horror. There are some highly classified, compartmented programs instituted by the Bush Administration that, when examined by lawyers with more...
Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | 11/22/2008
... Bush’s man, Robert Gates. Admittedly, Gates has always been more nuanced about the war than, say, Don Rumsfeld. But surely keeping Bush’s SecDef is not exactly what the anti-war Dems had in mind as “change we can believe in.” Heck, Joe Lieberman’s sitting pretty and he endorsed McCain. It will be interesting to see how long Obama’s charisma can paper over reality. Heh. Plus, Tom Maguire...
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
... seemed to buy into his own press. When he got up to speak—this was well before the announcement of Don Rumsfeld as secretary of defense—it was almost as if he were the president. As Bush stood quietly behind him—he actually seemed to shrink in size—Powell rather presumptuously endorsed him as "a president for all the people, all the time" and then laid out his own vision of American , one...
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
... seemed to buy into his own press. When he got up to speak—this was well before the announcement of Don Rumsfeld as secretary of defense—it was almost as if he were the president. As Bush stood quietly behind him—he actually seemed to shrink in size—Powell rather presumptuously endorsed him as "a president for all the people, all the time" and then laid out his own vision of American , one...
NO QUARTER (Free subscription) | 11/16/2008
... charges against George Bush and his colleagues. Who is in the crosshairs besides Bush and Cheney? Don Rumsfeld, Alberto Gonzales, John Ashcroft, Doug Feith, Paul Wolfowitz, George Tenet, Director of CIA Ops–Jim Pavitt, Cofer Black, and John Yoo –just to name a few. This is just a list off the top of my head. Hopefully these guys are not planning to grab some beach time in the French Riviera...
The Liberal Doomsayer (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
... also point out here that Hadley dismissed some of the ideas of departing Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld a couple of years ago, which would not be a big deal were it not for the fact that Rummy listed troop withdrawals as one such idea. I’m not going to waste my time belaboring the point once more that the “surge” wouldn’t have been a “success” were it not for the Sunni Awakening and the...
