Donald Rumsfeld

100 Million Suspects

RJ Eskow | Posted 10.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Democracy Is Messy, Acorn, John McCain, Locke, Donald Rumsfeld, Sousveillance, Democracy, Election Protection Wiki, Voting Problems, Hobbes, Barack Obama, Politics News
RJ Eskow

In the end, the decision couldn't be clearer. This election is a referendum on trusting the electorate. It's a referendum on democracy itself.

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Sympathy for "W", Not For Voters

Mike Papantonio | Posted 10.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, W, Oliver Stone, War, 9/11, Donald Rumsfeld, Iraq, Terrorist, Terrorism, Movie, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Mike Papantonio

Stone's movie is kind to "W" in that it makes a case that George spent most of his life swimming in water too deep for his swimming skills. The tragedy is that voters never recognized that.

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Rumsfeld Getting $46,790 Portrait On Taxpayers' Dime

The Washington Post | Posted 10.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Donald Rumsfeld, White House, Portraits, Economy, Politics News

Behind every great man or woman in Washington there is a great painting. As the Bush presidency draws to a close, portrait artists can expect a surge ...

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New Pentagon Report Slams Missile Defense Agency

Joe Cirincione | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Iran, Nuclear Weapons, Poland, Missile Defense, Czech Republic, Politics News
Joe Cirincione

The study says that the Missile Defense Agency (MDA)'s rush to deploy something, anything, has come at the expense of research and careful development of weapons that work.

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Powell's Tortured Endorsement

Charles J. Brown | Posted 10.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Colin Powell, United Nations, Guantanamo, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Barack Obama, Abu Ghraib, Dick Cheney, War Crimes, Human Rights, Jane Mayer, John Ashcroft, Condoleezza Rice, Security Council, Bush Administration, George Tenet, Election 2008, Torture, Convention Against Torture, Unsc, Politics News
Charles J. Brown

Powell endorsed Obama and I was moved by his statement, particularly his challenge to Republicans about their demonization of Islam. Despite this, I don't welcome his endorsement.

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America's Shadow Government: Part Two

John W. Whitehead | Posted 10.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Suspension of the Constitution, Ronald Reagan, National Security Presidential DIrective 51, Mount Weather, George W. Bush, 9/11, Donald Rumsfeld, Shadow Government, Cog, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Security Presidential Directive 20, The Cold War, Dick Cheney, Wwii, Authoritarian Government, Peter DeFazio, Martial Law, Constitution, President Bush, September 11th, Office of the Presidency at Mount Weather, Continuity of Government Plan, Politics News
John W. Whitehead

This database reportedly contains the names of Americans who, "often for the slightest and most trivial reason, are considered unfriendly, and who, in a time of panic, might be incarcerated."

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Only 20 Presidents Had More Experience Than Obama

John K. Wilson | Posted 10.07.2008 | Home

Read More: Presidential History, Experience, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, John McCain, Bush Administration, Judgment, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Sarah Palin, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Campaign 2008, Obama Experience, Home News
John K. Wilson

Even if Obama were inexperienced, that would be no reason to vote against him. History shows us that an experienced politician usually makes for a lousy president. In fact, the most consistent variable to predict a failed presidency is experience.

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America's Shadow Government: Part One

John W. Whitehead | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: 9/11, Shadow Government, Martial Law, Constitution, President Bush, Suspension of the Constitution, Ronald Reagan, National Security Presidential DIrective 51, Mount Weather, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Dwight D. Eisenhower, COG, Security Presidential Directive 20, The Cold War, Dick Cheney, Wwii, Authoritarian Government, Peter DeFazio, September 11th, Office of the Presidency at Mount Weather, Continuity of Government Plan, Politics News
John W. Whitehead

We are, for all intents and purposes, one terrorist attack away from having a full-fledged authoritarian state emerge from the shadows.

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Top Bush Officials Participated In Torture Talks, New Documents Show

NY Times | MARK MAZZETTI | Posted 09.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: John Ashcroft Waterboarding, Donald Rumsfeld Torture, Condoleezza Rice, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, CIA Torture, John Ashcroft, Torture, Al Qaeda, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Senior White House officials played a central role in deliberations in the spring of 2002 about whether the Central Intelligence Agency ...

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'DC 9/11' is the New 'Reefer Madness'

Erik Lundegaard | Posted 09.24.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: George Bush, Lionel Chetwynd, DC 9/11: Time of Crisis, Reefer Madness, Colin Powell, Ronald Reagan, Oliver Stone, Donald Rumsfeld, Snl, Phil Hartman, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Dick Cheney, Saddam Hussein, Entertainment News
Erik Lundegaard

Football metaphors abound. Boys who never went to war get to use the words of war. This is a movie that actually celebrates the worst foreign policy decisions we've ever made.

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Ambassador for All War Crimes Except Our Own

Charles J. Brown | Posted 09.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, John Bolton, John Yoo, Human Rights Watch, Sri Lanka, Guantanamo, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Iraq, Madeleine Albright, Dick Cheney, War Crimes, Condoleezza Rice, International Criminal Court, Timothy Flanigan, David Scheffer, Stephen Cambone, William J. Haynes, David Addington, Yugoslavia, Michael Chertoff, State Department, War on Terror, Jane Mayer, John Ashcroft, George Tenet, Cambodia, Clint Williamson, Alberto Gonzales, Rwanda, Torture, Icty, Ictr, George Bush, United Nations, 9/11, Human Rights Abuses, Convention on Torture, Abu Ghraib, Icc, Politics News
Charles J. Brown

The Office of War Crimes Issues doesn't just tell other countries to do as we say and not as we do. The Administration has actually made OWCI complicit of its own war crimes apparatus.

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Book: Rumsfeld Made Rice Cry In The White House

Daily Telegrah | Tim Shipman | Posted 09.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Condoleezza Rice, Rumsfeld and Condoleezza Rice, Rumsfeld Made Rice Cry, Donald Rumsfeld, Politics News

Known as the Steel Magnolia in her youth, Miss Rice has guided the US through the war on terror, looked tyrants in the eye and faced down terrorist th...

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Turning Poetry Into Music

John Lundberg | Posted 09.14.2008 | Living

Read More: The Tyger, The Poetic Life, Bryant Kong, Hart Seely, Allen Ginsberg, William Blake, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Donald Rumsfeld, Poetry, Living News
John Lundberg

Has poetry officially jumped the shark? I came across an NPR story this past week on a composer who set the "found poetry" of Donald Rumsfeld--pulled...

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From the Day Terrorists Attacked My Neighborhood to Now

Joyce McFadden | Posted 09.11.2008 | Living

Read More: Donald Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, September 11th, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Living News
Joyce McFadden

I never thought that my daughter's school would turn into an Emergency Command Center, and the school beside hers a morgue.

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Plain Food, Please

Amy Ephron | Posted 09.08.2008 | Living

Read More: Mt. Misery, Key Lime Cafe, John McCain, Creationism, The Inn at Perry Cabin, Soft-Shelled Crab, Maryland, Chesapeake Bay, Sara Palin, Donald Rumsfeld, Food, St Michael's, Frederick Douglass, Barack Obama, Choice, Living News
Amy Ephron

We'd walked past it a couple of times, a simple storefront set back from the street with a small porch, a glimpse of tables inside, unassuming. The Key Lime Cafe. Full at lunch-time, we assumed it was a Maryland version of a diner.

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Joe Knows National Security

Joe Cirincione | Posted 08.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Missile Shield, Missile Defense, Terrorism, Donald Rumsfeld, 9/11, Joe Biden, Biden National Security, Obama National Security, Biden Foreign Policy, Obama Foreign Policy, Politics News
Joe Cirincione

If George Bush had listened to Joe Biden instead of Donald Rumsfeld, the history of the past seven years would have been very different. We might have prevented 9/11.

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Georgia: What a Difference a Gates Makes

Richard Silverstein | Posted 08.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Russia Georgia War, Putin Georgia Fighting, Realist Foreign Policy, Donald Rumsfeld, Robert Gates, Robert Gates Russia Georgia War, Politics News
Richard Silverstein

After reading statements from Bush and Secretary of Defense Gates, how thankful I am that the latter is running defense policy and not his predecessor Rumsfeld.

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How the McCain Campaign is Like the Iraq War

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Donald Rumsfeld, John McCain Attack Ads, John McCain, Barack Obama, Politics News
Robert J. Elisberg

Looking over John McCain's campaign strategy, you'd swear Donald Rumsfeld was in charge. It has the same mission -- Victory in Iraq -- the same disastrous planning and the same chaotic results.

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McCain's Premature Surge Adulation

David Quigg | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Paul Wolfowitz, Politics, Iraq Surge, Max Boot, John McCain, Thomas Ricks Fiasco, Counterinsurgency, David Petraeus, Donald Rumsfeld, Iraq, 2008 Election, Eric Shinseki, Politics News
David Quigg

McCain's failure of judgment, conscience, and courage during the rush to war cannot be erased. He turned his back on the only surge that might have spared us this: a surge before the invasion.

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Looking Back: Rumsfeld Privately Criticized Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki As Inferior To Mass Murderers

Jonathan Schwarz | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: White House, Maliki Obama, Donald Rumsfeld, Maliki, White House Maliki, Iraq, Nouri Al Maliki, Politics News
Jonathan Schwarz

There's no question Nouri al-Maliki has been giving the White House heartburn. So it's worth looking back at the Bush administration's private views of Maliki, as stated by Donald Rumsfeld back in 2006.

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Tillman Family Still Waiting for Answers: Will Congress Act?

Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Donald Rumsfeld, Pat Tillman, Army, White House, General Richard Myers, Mary Tillman, Afghanistan, Politics News
Paul Rieckhoff

Our military officials felt brave enough to send our troops into battle, and yet not one of them has the strength of character to look Pat's mother, Mary Tillman, in the face, and say they are sorry.

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Arlington Cemetery Trying To Impose New Restrictions On Funerals Of Iraq War Dead

Washington Post | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Iraq War Casualties, Iraq War Funerals, Iraq War Media, Pentagon War Dead, Arlington Cemetary, Donald Rumsfeld Iraq War, War Wire, Donald Rumsfeld, Media Coverage Iraq War, Pentagon Iraq War, Media Coverage War Casualties, Robert Gates War Dead, Iraq War Dead, Politics News

The ghost of Rummy is proving difficult to exorcise. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has tried to sweep out the symbols of his predecessor's capriciou...

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Al Jazeera In Vermont

Jillian York | Posted 07.07.2008 | Home

Read More: Television, United States, Al Jazeera English, Al Jazeera, Telecoms, Burlington Vermont Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera Burlington, Rumsfeld Terror, Burlington Telecom Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera Rumsfeld, Consorship Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera Americans, Cable Al Jazeera, Donald Rumsfeld, Home News
Jillian York

When Burlington, Vermont's cable company, Burlington Telecom, decided to carry Al Jazeera, groups clamored both in protest and support, and bloggers around the world jumped on the story.

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Why Stuff Happens

Nick Revell | Posted 06.27.2008 | Living

Read More: George Bush, Homosexuality, Natural Disasters, Sharon Stone, Tibet, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Why Things Happen, China, How the World Works, 236.Com, Living News
Nick Revell

Be honest, if there were any justice, then how come most of us know deep down it is entirely possible Donald Rumsfeld might end up dying peacefully and painlessly in his sleep?

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Unearthed: News of the Week the Mainstream Media Forgot to Report

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 06.27.2008 | Media

Read More: Bp, Exxon Mobil, Donald Rumsfeld, Pepper Spray, Traffic Pollution, VA Chantix, Dick Cheney, Shell Oil, Iraq War Veteran, Childhood Allergies, Peak Oil, Democratic National Convention Denver, Blackwater Iraq, Clean Technology, Ptsd, No-Bid Contracts, Global Warming, Sharia, Media News
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle

Government report links extreme weather to global warming, traffic pollution to childhood allergies, Denver Police stockpiling pepper weapons and Rumsfeld got torture advice from Army psychologists.

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