Donald Rumsfeld

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Where Are They Now?

Nick Turse | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Karl Rove, Tom Ridge, Scott Mcclellan, Andrew Card, Michael Mukasey, Donald Rumsfeld, Ari Fleischer, John Yoo, Dick Cheney, Michael Chertoff, Bush Administration, Harriet Miers, Tommy Thompson, Henry Paulson, John Ashcroft, Karen Hughes, Alberto Gonzales, Politics News

While times are tough for most Americans, one group is doing remarkably well. For former members of the Bush administration, the economic outlook remains bright and jobs are seemingly plentiful.

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Thank You, Bill Maher, For Asking Where in the World is Barack Obama and What is He Going To Do About Healthcare?

Anne Dunev | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics

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Most decent people cannot conceive that anyone would profit from knowingly harming others. That is the flaw in capitalism. And that is one reason that evil can exist.

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Bush Resisted Calls From Top Staff To Fire Rumsfeld Much Earlier

The Washington Post | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics

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Face time with the president is political gold in Washington, so Donald Rumsfeld moved quickly after taking charge at the Pentagon to secure weekly pr...

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Obama's Doublespeak on Iran

Ismael Hossein-zadeh | Posted 07.13.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Dennis Ross, Obama Iran, Suicide Bombers, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Us Israel Policy, US-Iran Relations, Iran, Barack Obama, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Hilary Clinton, Dennis-Ross-Iran, Saddam Hussein, Zionism, National Security Council, Israel Iran, World News

In terms of actual policy measures, President Obama and his foreign policy team have not taken any steps to reverse or mitigate the hostile policies their predecessors put into effect against Iran.

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Think Again: Dick Cheney's Post Presidency

Eric Alterman | Posted 06.29.2009 | Media

Read More: Iraq War, Robert Kuttner, Vice President, Karl Rove, Barton Gellman, Bush Administration, George W. Bush, President Obama, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Torture, Media News

Crossposted with the Center for American Progress Eric Alterman, Danielle Ivory Former President George W. Bush recently mused with the press about...

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The Rush and Cheney Show Accelerates Military Desertion of the GOP

Jon Soltz | Posted 06.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: US Military, Colin Powell, Rush Limbaugh, Donald Rumsfeld, Joseph Hoar, Wesley Clark, Hugh Shelton, John Shalikashvili, Al Qaeda, Dick Cheney, Politics, Politics News, Military, Dwight Eisenhower, Paul Eaton, Newt Gingrich, Republican Party, Republicans, Politics News

For decades, the conventional wisdom was that the Republican Party was the party of the military. However, as Republicans have abandoned ideals that make our military strong, big names now support Democrats.

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Cheney, Rumsfeld Urged CIA To Mislead Congress In The 1970s, Authors Say

Online Journal | Posted 06.27.2009 | Politics

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The first time Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld pressured the CIA to mislead Congress was in 1975 and 1976, when Cheney was chief of staff to President...

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Picking on Pelosi

John Wellington Ennis | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics

For all of the suspicion and projection upon her, Speaker Pelosi is really like a mom making her kids behave politely at a fancy restaurant.

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Dullness: A Euphemism for Status Quo

Judith Ellis | Posted 06.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Kbr, Ayn Rand, Tom Peters, Halliburton, Arianna Huffington, David Brooks, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Iraq War, Business News

Brooks and his ilk also like to pretend that there is some big separation between government and big business when in reality they have been in bed for years.

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Bible Quotes on "Worldwide Intelligence Updates?"

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

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Bush proved that the blurring of the line that separates Church and State is not only unconstitutional, it is also wholly dysfunctional.

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David Frum Slams Donald Rumsfeld: "The Reckoning"

New Majority | David Frum | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics

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Robert Draper's GQ account of fingerpointing by former Bush officials against Donald Rumsfeld is the media story of the week. Yet a quick tour of the ...

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Dowd Returns To Form In Josh Marshall-Free Column

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.20.2009 | Media

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One of the ironic things about Maureen Dowd's last, infamous column is that at first glance, people were struck by the sudden emergence of intelligenc...

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Colbert On Rumsfeld's Cover Pages: War Briefings Are A Snooze Unless You Add Some Pizzazz (VIDEO)

Posted 06.20.2009 | Comedy

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The news that former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld used cover pages with religious quotes and war imagery when passing information to Presiden...

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Donald Rumsfeld Remixes Christian Hymns for George W. Bush

Patrick Sauer | Posted 06.19.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Religion, Gq, Robert Draper, Amazing Grace, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Iraq War, Christianity, Hymnals, George W. Bush and Iraq, Barack Obama, Rumsfeld, Bush Rumsfeld, Comedy News

GQ broke the story that Rumsfeld used cover sheets juxtaposing Bible quotes and war imagery for the top-secret intelligence briefings, but did you know he also rewrote the words to Bush's favorite hymns?

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Rumsfeld Disputes GQ Report: Aide Says He Didn't Make Slides

Politico | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics

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An aide to former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Keith Urbahn, e-mails to contest a widely-discussed GQ article by Robert Draper, which suggested ...

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Confronting Rumsfeld

Jeff Norman | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics

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Mere willingness to insult Donald Rumsfeld to his face is not a great accomplishment. It trivializes his alleged crimes to showily spew inane jargon.

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Pentagon: Bible Quotes No Longer In Reports

AP | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon said Monday it no longer includes a Bible quote on the cover page of daily intelligence briefings it sends to the Whit...

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Why I Criticized Code Pink

Jeff Norman | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

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Many activists are more concerned with feeling good about themselves than being effective.

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Rumsfeld's Katrina Antics, Reported By GQ, Reveal How Congressional Investigations Were Whitewashes

David Fiderer | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

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When new revelations emerge, the Republicans' credibility takes new hits. That's why GQ's reporting on Rumsfeld is damning to Susan Collins, who spearheaded the Senate's sham investigation of the Katrina disaster.

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Holy Crap: Donald Rumsfeld's Crusade Memos

Disgrasian | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

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They used to put Scripture like this on t-shirts in my Southern Baptist youth group, to get us kids pumped about spending the first week of summer, the first taste of freedom...quietly studying the Bible.

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It's Official: Bush Admin Saw Iraq As Religious War

Jon Soltz | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Islam, Religion, Bush Administration, Department of Defense, Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan, Colin Powell, Judaism, President Obama, Holy-Wars, Donald Rumsfeld, Religious Freedom, Christianity, President Bush, Politics News

As someone who still has friends over in Iraq and Afghanistan, it boils my blood to think that insurgents and terrorists now have something else to show around as "proof" that America is "fighting a war on Islam."

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MRFF's Response to Rumsfeld Crusade Memos: We Told You So!

Chris Rodda | Posted 06.17.2009 | Politics

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The "routine" mixing of "Crusades-like messaging with war imagery" by the Department of Defense has been revealed over and over by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation since 2005.

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Rumsfeld was Bush's Rasputin

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 06.17.2009 | Politics

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Rumsfeld is a smart man, who is familiar with American history, so it wouldn't be fair to accuse him of a senior moment when that whole separation of church and state thing flew out of his head.

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Rumsfeld's Crusade Memos

GQ | Robert Draper | Posted 06.17.2009 | Politics

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On the morning of Thursday, April 10, 2003, Donald Rumsfeld's Pentagon prepared a top-secret briefing for George W. Bush. This document, known as the ...

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Donald Rumsfeld Loudly Harangued At White House Correspondents' Dinner (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics

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This video has been making the rounds, but in case you haven't seen it, here's Donald Rumsfeld getting shouted at by Desiree Fairooz and Medea Benjami...

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