Cyber warfare is not an abstract threat Nov 2, 2009
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld wants to use them for secret antiterror missions around the globe. But that could endanger all Americans in uniform and let the Pentagon run covert operations without proper oversight. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Ignorance is no excuse Nov 1, 2009
Donald Rumsfeld, the US defence secretary, took this to absurd extremes this weekend, claiming that Saddam tricked the US into war with his "deception and defiance". "It was his choice," says Rumsfeld. (Yahoo News -- Hutton Report)
Modest gains for Bush at Summit of Americas / Sweeping promises, sharp divisions as 34-nation meeting ends Nov 1, 2009
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said officials were considering permitting three or four other countries to bid, but he did not name them. Bush and Martin also pledged cooperation to combat mad cow disease, which is hurting the beef industries of both countries. (Yahoo News -- Summit of the Americas)
Beyond Dithering Oct 31, 2009
WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO DONALD RUMSFELD. WHY WAS SOCIAL SECURITY ROBBED FOR THE WAR. (Investors Business Daily)
Buttonwood: Bribing the markets Oct 30, 2009
Most people face a future that comprises a combination of Donald Rumsfeld s known and unknown unknowns. Choosing to buy a house, for example, involves a series of bets on land prices, interest rates, taxes, job prospects, future planning decisions in the area selected and the structural soundness of the property concerned. (The Economist)
US, China militaries talk more: Does that make world safer? Oct 29, 2009
In an angry outburst two years ago, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang responded to one such call, by former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, by asking: "If someone always tears through your underwear, saying 'let me see what's inside,' how would you feel? Wouldn't you want to call the police?". "Asking for Chinese military transparency is ridiculous," argues Wang Jinling, head of San Lue, an independent military think tank here. (Christian Science Monitor -- World)
A Personal Touch to President Bush Oct 28, 2009
Thankfully, President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice, and many others will be publishing their own memoirs, providing their own glimpses of truly historic times and their own behind the curtain looks at a momentous presidency. I can't wait to read them. (Townhall.com)
Odd that Afghanistan finally concerns GOP Oct 27, 2009
In 2003, Donald Rumsfeld announced the end of "combat activity" in Afghanistan, and John McCain declared that we'd already "prevailed" in Afghanistan back in 2004. The former presidential candidate rarely discussed Afghanistan until recently, though he did argue that we will just have to "muddle through," erroneously said Hamid Karzai was the president of Iraq and expressed his concern about the "Iraq/Pakistan border.". (The Pantagraph newspaper)
Letter: A look at the shifting politics of health care reform Oct 24, 2009
John Burton wrote on Oct 23, 2009 2:33 PM:" Ed: No one has said that social spending is wrong: NO ONE. That sentiment is hogwash and you know it. What is the economic logic behind lower tax rates? As legend has it, the famous Laffer Curve was first drawn by economist Arthur Laffer in 1974 on a cocktail napkin at a small dinner meeting attended by the late Wall Street Journal editor Robert Bartley and such high-powered policymakers as Richard Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. Laffer showed how two... (Montana Standard, MT)
Why listen to discredited ex-veep? Oct 23, 2009
This is the same administration that turned to such stellar tacticians as Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Ambassador L. Paul Bremer and Gen. Ricardo Sanchez to run things in Iraq after the initial invasion. Gen. George W. Casey succeeded Sanchez, who lasted only a year in Iraq after presiding over the Abu Ghraib fiasco. (Herald Online, SC -- Opinion)
Aide: Bush Abandoned Reaganism Oct 20, 2009
Latimer tells all about his time with the Bush administration--as well as that working for Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld-- in his new tome, "Speech-Less: Tales of a White House Survivor." A New York Times bestseller, it's received both acclaim and criticism for its candidness. Though Bush was considered a conservative, he certainly had no sympathy for some of the leaders of the movement, Latimer reports. (Newsmax)
Indian student languishes in US jail, alleges abuse Oct 18, 2009
On June 25, 2007, a grand jury in a US district court in Indiana held Buddhi guilty of posting messages on a Yahoo chat board threatening the lives of then president George W. Bush, vice president Dick Cheney and defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Buddhi will be sentenced Nov 19. (India Times)
Better candidates Oct 17, 2009
Place an obit: (559) 441-6228. Web Search powered by YAHOO. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Obama, Washington ready to pander to older voters Oct 16, 2009
Donald Rumsfeld is giving the president his daily briefing. He concludes by saying: Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
McChrystal, Watch Your Left Flank Oct 16, 2009
McChrystal: Watch Your Left Flank - HUMAN EVENTS. The political Left is now attacking Gen. Stanley McChrystal over his proposed troop surge in Afghanistan in the same way it tried to besmirch the character of Gen. David Petraeus when he promoted the successful Iraq reinforcement. (Human Events Online)
Obama beset by America's far right Oct 15, 2009
The two men were also co-founders and directors of the Project for the New American Century, a number of whose 1997 charter members, including the elder Cheney, former Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld, and their two top aides - I Lewis "Scooter" Libby and Paul Wolfowitz, respectively - played key roles in promoting the 2003 invasion of Iraq and Bush's other first-term policies when the hawks exercised their greatest influence. Kristol and Cheney, who are also commentators for the far-right Fox... (Asia Times Online)
Dowd: Cheney's daughters are working to build on dad's dark deeds Oct 15, 2009
That was a 1998 letter to President Bill Clinton from the Project for the New American Century, with signers such as Kristol, Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Perle and John Bolton, urging a strategy that "should aim, above all, at the removal of Saddam Hussein's regime from power.". Kristol joked to Politico's Ben Smith that the venture might serve as a launching pad for Liz to run for office. (Sacramento Bee -- Opinion)
Dems Change Stance on Military and Afghanistan Oct 10, 2009
I can only imagine the jeers that would have followed if Bush Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had suggested that dissident generals should give their "best advice to the president candidly but privately." Yet when Obama Defense Secretary Robert Gates said those words in response to reports that Gen. Stanley McChrystal believes NATO needs as many as 40,000 additional U.S. troops to turn the tide in Afghanistan, Democrats like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi agreed. Forget all that posturing about... (Townhall.com)
FLYING HIGH: South Shore has more than its share of Eagle Scouts Oct 9, 2009
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Insubordination? Oct 7, 2009
Discussion of his speech also invoked memories of the who publicly criticized President George W. Bush's defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld in the spring of 2006 for his decisions in the Iraq warespecially his failure to send enough troops to topple Saddam Hussein and to impose order afterward. Some hailed the retired generals as heroes; others criticized them for not putting up a tougher fight against Rumsfeld while they were still on active duty and thus in a position of influenceor for... (Slate)
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PETA Becomes A Corporate Animal - HUMAN EVENTS. PETA Becomes A Corporate Animal by 10/05/2009. (Human Events Online)
White House Irked at McChrystal Oct 7, 2009
The White House is becoming increasingly irked at its most important general -- Stanley McChrystal, the four-star running President Obama's war in Afghanistan. Obama dispatched McChrystal to Afghanistan in June to defeat the Taliban under a White House strategy adopted in March and with 21,000 extra troops. (Human Events Online)
McChrystal's Afghanistan comments: insightful or sedition? Oct 6, 2009
Gen. Peter Pace, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, was pilloried for not standing up to his boss over Iraq. Military commanders must always be truthful, but they must be careful. (Christian Science Monitor -- USA)
PETA Becomes A Corporate Animal Oct 5, 2009
Americans know the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals for its wild publicity stunts in the name of protecting cows, chickens, and other eatables. But a closer look at media-savvy PETA shows it also has become a corporate animal. (Human Events Online)
Newsweek: Why are Europe, U.S. split on Iran nukes? Oct 4, 2009
First off, George W. was a puppet for Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld to take over Iraq and make money for Haliburtan. The intelligence communities in the US and around the world knew this--and I love that you guys call outing a CIA agents identity during a time of war "pressure" rather than treason committed by the Vicre President. (MSNBC -- International)
Ignorance is no excuse Oct 2, 2009
Donald Rumsfeld, the US defence secretary, took this to absurd extremes this weekend, claiming that Saddam tricked the US into war with his "deception and defiance". "It was his choice," says Rumsfeld. (Yahoo News -- Hutton Report)
Why police are keeping quiet on Census worker Sparkman death Oct 2, 2009
Just because Census worker Bill Sparkman was found hanging from a tree with the word 'fed' written on his chest doesn't mean he was murdered in an antigovernment act. Sparkman died in an insular county of moonshiners and pot-growers, and police are wary of taking a wrong step. (Christian Science Monitor -- USA)
War crimes by doctors and psychologists Oct 1, 2009
On April 16, 2003, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld sent a memorandum, Counter Resistance Techniques in the War on Terror, to the Commander, U.S. Southern Command. Rumsfeld ordered a medical partnership of counterresistance -- interrogation for 20 hours, which he approved, that included deprivation of light and sound. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Will NATO's 60th Anniversary Be Its Last? Oct 1, 2009
I read this article say back and closed my eyes and realized that John Feffer must be a pen name for Donald Rumsfeld in drag. Remember Rumsfeld's talk of Old Europe and New Europe. (CBS News)
Modest gains for Bush at Summit of Americas / Sweeping promises, sharp divisions as 34-nation meeting ends Sep 30, 2009
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said officials were considering permitting three or four other countries to bid, but he did not name them. Bush and Martin also pledged cooperation to combat mad cow disease, which is hurting the beef industries of both countries. (Yahoo News -- Summit of the Americas)
First They Came for the Pigs Sep 30, 2009
Iranian television recently suggesting that the swine-flu virus had been deliberately incubated by the usual shady cosmopolitan "circles" and that the vaccine against it had been monopolized by a company in which Donald Rumsfeld held many shares. Back in May, just as Egypt's anti-porcine hysteria was gathering pace, there was a from Sheik Ahmad Ali Othman, a senior advisory figure at the Ministry of Religious Endowments, that all pigs be killed because they were the descendants of those... (Slate)
Facebook poll asks: Kill Obama? Sep 30, 2009
Facebook Poll Asks: Kill Obama. By joining with GOPers to kill a public option, Dems send a dangerously mixed message on the health insurance industry. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Editorial: It won't be easy, but U.S. must toughen up its Afghan mission Sep 26, 2009
Always there is the illusion, which gripped Donald Rumsfeld and now grips many Democrats, that you can fight a counterinsurgency war with a light footprint, with cruise missiles, with special forces operations and unmanned drones. Always there is the illusion, deep in the bones of the Pentagon's Old Guard, that you can fight a force like the Taliban by keeping your troops mostly in bases, and then sending them out in well-armored convoys to kill bad guys. (Sacramento Bee -- Opinion)
US military united on Afghanistan troop request Sep 26, 2009
In 2007, then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld opposed sending more forces to Iraq, but some of the service chiefs were also ambivalent. They were worried that a troop surge might not work and would push an exhausted military too far. (Christian Science Monitor -- USA)
How Bill Clinton Gave Us George W. Bush Sep 25, 2009
The new age of blood and iron ushered by President Bush II, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, the three men of the apocalypse, didn t come out of nowhere, he writes. Beneath the frivolity of the Clinton years dark forces had been gathering their strength, waiting for a chance to slouch towards Bethlehem, the opportunity that 9/11 would give them. (The American Conservative)
Union sets Thursday 'furlough day' -- or strike? Sep 25, 2009
" Stand up and take a bow, Donald Rumsfeld. Now will we see another chapter added? "How wealthy Palo Alto leveraged the recession in order to further widen the gap between the super-wealthy and working people in the USA". Like lazy vultures seeing what they think is a carcass some opportunistic politicians and local right-wing ideologues view the current recession as a another wedge opportunity to further drive working people down. It will be exposed if it proceeds. SEIU, despite it's problems,... (Palo Alto Online, CA)
Union strikes in Palo Alto Sep 25, 2009
"At the most chaotic juncture in Iraq'' civil war, a new law is unveiled that will allow Shell and BP to claim the country's vast oil reserves Immediately following September 11, the Bush Administration quietly outsources the running of the 'War on Terror' to Halliburton and Blackwater After a tsunami wipes out the coasts of Southeast Asia, the pristine beaches are auctioned off to tourist resorts New Orleans residents, scattered from Hurricane Katrina, discover that their public housing,... (Palo Alto Online, CA)
Book on Pat Tillman has political tones Sep 24, 2009
U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld who had opened the clandestine Office of Strategic Influence in October 2001 and was the Pentagon's most enthusiastic propagandist sent Tillman a laudatory note and advised Secretary of the Army Thomas White to "keep an eye on him.". Frustratingly, Tillman wouldn't cooperate. (Honolulu Advertiser)
MAp manoeuvres are in known unknowns Sep 24, 2009
But MAp investors are still in the ''known unknowns'' territory that former US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld famously outlined. They know a bit more after MAp's release of some detail of the ''facilitation deed poll'' that could see Macquarie return up to $345 million to MAp within six months of its exit as manager if change-of-control clauses force an expensive $4 billion debt renegotiation. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
White House Stiff Arms McChrystal Sep 23, 2009
The White House opposes its top general's plan to request a significant amount of additional troops for Afghanistan and is studying ways to change the strategy so the current force level can do the job -- at least on paper. The cold shoulder toward Gen. Stanley McChrystal comes even as he has sent a confidential report to the White House saying the situation in Afghanistan is "deteriorating.". (Human Events Online)
Common Sense Sep 23, 2009
So Donald Rumsfeld gets a pass because he said nice things about Latimer. And President Bush does not, because he all-but ignored Latimer. (Fox News)
GOP succumbed to unchecked power Sep 23, 2009
Frustrated by his inability to staff his own department, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld went to the White House in 2005 to sort out the situation ... Matt Latimer was deputy director of speechwriting for President George W. Bush and senior speechwriter for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Buying Health Insurance? Only If He Likes It Sep 21, 2009
Mr. Scarborough is a national security writer who has written books on Donald Rumsfeld and the CIA, including the New York Times bestseller. Reader Comments: () There are no comments posted yet. (Human Events Online)
* If you cant predict doomsday, at least have a worst-case scenario Sep 20, 2009
None of this means that all risks can be prepared for X there are always dangers lurking that we are not even aware of, what former US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld famously called unknown unknowns. . (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Former top Marine in Iraq promoted to lt general Sep 19, 2009
He listened to Donald Rumsfeld and not his generals, who like Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni and Gen. Eric Shinseki, warned that almost double the number of troops the Bush team pushed for were needed. During the beginning of the war we kept hearing Rumsfeld and Bush tell us that we don't need more troops. (Fresno Bee -- State)
Bush vets: Who is Matt Latimer? (Politico) Sep 18, 2009
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Tony Fratto. (Yahoo News -- Politics)
The Silent General Sep 17, 2009
On April 24, 1863, President Lincoln signed his General Order No. 100, written by Columbia University professor Francis Lieber, to decree that "military necessity does not admit of cruelty." The United States military formally respected that rule for nearly 140 years until, on December 2, 2002, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld signed a memorandum on "Counter-Resistance Techniques" prepared for him by his general counsel, William J. Haynes II.. The Rumsfeld memo authorized the military... (The American Conservative)
Obamacare Only Healthy for Lawyers Sep 16, 2009
Tucked away in the thousands of pages of the Democrats' health care overhaul bill are a number of gifts to the trial lawyers. Which, by the way, are the Party's largest financial backers. (Human Events Online)
Mullen says US needs more troops in Afghanistan Sep 16, 2009
Under Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, top officers were less willing or unable to provide their public views for fear of crossing swords with Mr. Rumsfeld. Mullen's comments also suggest that the top officers present a unified front when it comes to increasing troops to Afghanistan. (Christian Science Monitor -- USA)
McKinney remembers 9/11 victims Sep 15, 2009
The Secretary of Defense (Donald Rumsfeld) was pulling people out. ""I never saw a response as fast and as quick as the firefighters in Washington D.C.," he said. "I know the same guys here who protect your lives day in and day out do the same thing. (McKinney Courier-Gazette, TX)
Pat Tillman's First Mission Was Jessica Lynch Rescue Sep 12, 2009
" Just over a year later, many of the same officials and military by friendly fire in Afghanistan into a similarly disingenuous tale of battlefield valor. Related Tillman was one of the most potent and misused symbols of post-9/11 patriotism in America. As the most famous American soldier in the newly-launched War on Terror, Tillman had received a personal note of congratulations from Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld after he enlisted. The former Arizona Cardinals hitman was highly- to... (ABC News)
How to Stop the Ghana bashing Sep 11, 2009
Secretary of War Donald Rumsfeld has a "strategy guy" whose job is to teach this new way of warfare to high-level military officers from all branches of services and to top level CIA operatives. Thomas Barnett is a professor at the Navy War College in Rhode Island. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Freedom walk scheduled here today Pentagon decision not to host Freedom Walk disappoints victim's widow Sep 11, 2009
Then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld inaugurated the Freedom Walk in 2005 to commemorate the 2001 attacks and as a way for the public to show support for the military and reflect on the nation's freedoms. One hundred eighty-four people were killed at the Pentagon when terrorists slammed American Airlines Flight 77 into the building. (Fredericksburg.com, VA)
Fifty questions on 9/11 Sep 11, 2009
15) Could defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld explain why initial media reports said that there were no fighter jets available at Andrews Air Force Base and then change the reports that there were, but not on high alert. 16) Why was the DC Air National Guard in Washington AWOL on 9/11. (Asia Times Online)
United States of Paranoia Sep 11, 2009
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld described the intensive U.S. bombing campaign in the days leading up to the March 2003 land offensive as designed to promote shock and awe. But that work had already been accomplished. (The American Conservative)
Alex Shoucair: Stop the study abroad scam Sep 11, 2009
This is sort of like when George Bush fired Donald Rumsfeld after six years on the job - it was a good step, but didn't do much to solve the original screw-up. In my own case, I studied abroad in Beijing. (GW Hatchet, Washington DC)
Diary - Bush, Schwarzenegger top English gobbledegook poll Sep 10, 2009
Former US president George W Bush topped a poll of the worst examples of mangled English released yesterday, followed closely by California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Donald Rumsfeld, the former US secretary of defence. French footballer-cum-philosopher Eric Cantona and former US president Bill Clinton also produced prime examples of gobbledegook, according to the online poll of 4 000 people inspired by the Plain English Campaign. (Business Report, South Africa)
Web Exclusive: Rand could strengthen to R7 to the US dollar Sep 10, 2009
Former US president George W Bush topped a poll of the worst examples of mangled English released yesterday, followed closely by California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Donald Rumsfeld, the former US secretary of defence. . (Business Report, South Africa)
Why KO Sunday Night Football? Sep 4, 2009
This is the same analytic genius who once told President Bush to shut the hell up and said of now-former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that he was a quack pushing fascism. And NBC can t pretend that Olbermann s political unwisdom is kept separate from his sports analysis. (Human Events Online)
Blown Out of Proportion? Sep 2, 2009
Now Ridge said after the release of that video that Attorney General John Ashcroft and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld recommended that the administration raised the terror alert level ... HANNITY: If John Ashcroft and Donald Rumsfeld were suggesting to you, when you said, is this about security or is this about politics, you also concluded it also seem possible to me and others around that table that something could be afoot other than the simple concern of this country's safety. (Fox News)
Ridge: Second Thoughts, but Not Second-Guessing Sep 1, 2009
There was a heated discussion on the weekend before the 2004 election, in which Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Attorney General John Ashcroft made their case in vain to raise the terrorism threat level. Ridge now admits that he thought political calculation might have been at play. (Time.com)
Retired general offers views on why Iraq strategy failed in Afghanistan Aug 31, 2009
Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is patriotic, but he had flawed personality in that he was always right, Marks said. He had little dialogue with military leaders, and he made decisions without taking the services concerns on how operations should be handled, Marks said. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
Eric Holder's Hidden Agenda Aug 29, 2009
" This theory holds that individual nations have the power to prosecute actions that occur in other countries, even when they have no impact on the prosecuting nation. The idea is that some offenses - such as torture and war crimes - so offend the purported consensus of humanity (i.e., so offend left-wing sensibilities) that they may be prosecuted by any country that cares to take the initiative. In fact, many countries (the United States included) open their justice systems to civil suits... (CBS News)
Kevin Cullen: You had to like Ted Aug 27, 2009
He called then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Kennedy and Rumsfeld wouldn t agree on the time of day, but they agreed to get 12-year-old Rakan Hassan out of Iraq. (Boston Globe)
Depends on perspective Aug 27, 2009
A week prior to the congressional elections, President Bush told the American people that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was here to stay. The president was going to remain unyielding in his support of Mr. Rumsfeld. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
