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Senate Report: Bin Laden Was 'Within Our Grasp' In 2001

AP | CALVIN WOODWARD | Posted 11.29.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON — Osama bin Laden was unquestionably within reach of U.S. troops in the mountains of Tora Bora when American military leaders made th...

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GOP Sen.: Let's Not 'Rumsfeld' The War In Afghanistan

AP | Posted 09.09.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — A Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee says more troops are needed in Afghanistan and is warning that the U.S. must no...

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Rumsfeld Didn't Cut Weapons Programs Because Of 'His Own Financial Situation'

TPMMuckraker | Justin Elliott | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics

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Here's an intriguing detail from the new 685-page tome on Donald Rumsfeld, Bradley Graham's By His Own Rules: The Ambitions, Successes, and Ultimate F...

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Donald Rumsfeld Finally Opens Up: Slams The Media, Still Rages At Rice And Powell

TIME | Brad Graham | Posted 07.22.2009 | Politics

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For a few months after his departure as Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld occupied a suite of government-provided transition offices in a high-ris...

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Iraq as a Holy War: Why Praying for Divine Support Is a Bad Idea

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 06.23.2009 | Politics

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Jeff Schweitzer

Nothing could be more hazardous as a basis for international affairs than relying on God for guidance. The past eight years offer evidence for that conclusion.

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Donald Rumsfeld Remixes Christian Hymns for George W. Bush

Patrick Sauer | Posted 06.19.2009 | Comedy

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Patrick Sauer

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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Holy Crap: Donald Rumsfeld's Crusade Memos

Disgrasian | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

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Disgrasian

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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Torture Finally Broke Them

John Wellington Ennis | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics

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John Wellington Ennis

The truth is long overdue. We as a nation need to recognize that the tactic of coercing information does not work.

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Torture Revelations Will Leave the Left Frustrated

Sandy Goodman | Posted 05.27.2009 | Politics

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Sandy Goodman

The most likely outcome of this whole business will be that nobody will be punished.

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6 years Ago: "Stuff Happens," Rumsfeld Said, Amid Chaos in Iraq

Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.11.2009 | Politics

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Greg Mitchell

On a terrible day for the U.S. in Iraq on this Good Friday, it may be apt to recall and reprint the now infamous remarks of Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld six years ago after the liberation of Baghdad.

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Hearings for General Shinseki: Top Ten Questions from Vets for VA Secretary Nominee

Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics

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Paul Rieckhoff

General Shinseki has the potential to be an effective and dedicated advocate for veterans of all generations. But nobody gets a free pass. The Senate must ensure that he is the right person for a very tough job.

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Dear Dick: We Have Received Your Resume...

Jamie Malanowski | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics

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Jamie Malanowski

Dear Dr. Rice: This is to confirm that you will be teaching a course at The Learning Annex on Saturday, January 31st, to be entitled "Power Enabling: Smart Women, Costly Blunders.''

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Bush Singles Out "Outstanding" Rumsfeld For Praise

The Hill | Posted 02.06.2009 | Politics

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President Bush praised his oft-criticized former Defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld as "outstanding" in front of a military crowd on Tuesday. Bush, at...

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Holdovers: The Worst Rumsfeld Deputies Obama Is Stuck With

Washington Independent | Posted 01.24.2009 | Politics

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Awkward as it may be, some of the Pentagon officials who contributed to the foreign-policy debacles of the last eight years that brought Barack Obama ...

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Rumsfeld, Ashcroft Could Face Legal Jeopardy For War Abuses

Newsweek | Posted 01.19.2009 | Politics

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The United States, like many countries, has a bad habit of committing wartime excesses and an even worse record of accounting for them afterward. But ...

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Friday Talking Points [58] -- [Expletive Deleted] Blagojevich

Chris Weigant | Posted 01.12.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

The history of profanity in American political discourse is an untold story out there just waiting for someone to research and write about -- although...

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Reading The Pictures: Obama's Art Of War

Michael Shaw | Posted 12.19.2008 | Media

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Michael Shaw

2008-11-19-lieberman.jpg Now that the Obama era is underway, consider this the first illustration (and casualty) of the new art of war.

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Jed Lewison

Still Lying: Top McCain Aide Claims McCain Urged Firing Rumsfeld

HuffingtonPost.com | Jed Lewison | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics

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Sunday morning on Meet The Press, McCain chief strategist Steve Schmidt trotted out one of John McCain's tired old lies, the false claim that McCain h...

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Friday Night's Debate: How Obama Can Deliver the KO

Matt Littman | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics

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Matt Littman

I believe foreign policy is McCain's weak spot, one that has not been exploited, but one that I believe Obama will pounce on on Friday night.

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The Murder Trial of George W. Bush?

Andy Ostroy | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics

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Andy Ostroy

There are those who say that President George W. Bush should be impeached for intentionally overstating the case for war with Iraq and misleading the...

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Where is the Outrage?

Robert Scheer | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics

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Robert Scheer

Are we Americans truly savages or merely tone-deaf in matters of morality, and therefore more guilty of terminal indifference than venality?

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Rumsfeld Memoir to Be Published in 2010

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics

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NEW YORK — Donald H. Rumsfeld, the powerful defense secretary and architect of the Iraq War who left office two years ago as he faced ever-risin...

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Rumsfeld Appointment Draws "Fierce Protests" At Stanford University

New York Times | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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The appointment of Donald H. Rumsfeld, the former defense secretary, as a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution is drawing fierce pr...

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Rumsfeld Speech Canceled After "Too Many People Objected"

ThinkProgress | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was supposed to speak to the Wichita Metro Chamber of Commerce in Kansas on Dec. 4. But today the Wichita ...

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