Archive | Rumsfeld

01 August 2006 ~ 355 Comments

New Patrick Murphy Web Ad

Those of you out there who are keeping an eye on Fighting Dem candidate Patrick Murphy will want to check out his new web ad.
Murphy Ad
Basically: Change – (Bush + Rumsfeld + Fitzpatrick) = Patrick Murphy. I’m down with it.

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17 February 2006 ~ 120 Comments

“You Haven’t Got Mail”

Newsweek is running a story that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff do not use email. Apparently, this was discovered when Congress was investigating the federal response to Katrina and were told that they could not see Rumsfeld’s and Chertoff’s emails because they didn’t exist.
Here’s one interesting response:
But Dr. Irwin Redlener, [...]

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09 December 2005 ~ 0 Comments

Rumsfeld Supporting Troop Withdrawl?

He hasn’t been sticking too closely to the talking points lately, but what will be Bush/Cheney’s response to this:

But after the ballot, scheduled departures would bring US troop levels down to 138,000.
‘The hope is that the conditions will permit some drawdowns of troops,’ US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said.
Rumsfeld said decisions on deeper cuts could [...]

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15 November 2005 ~ 65 Comments

Bush — More Dangerous than the Nixon Administration — an anser to JHC from the comment section

So I now can see that twenty years from now — after the Bush Administration has said repeatedly their is no scientific proof that Global Warming (or Climate Change as they call it)is caused by human beings. When it will be clear to everyone that the Bush administration was wrong — the Republicans will be [...]

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25 October 2005 ~ 10 Comments

Colonel Wilkerson – “The White House Cabal”

Last week, I posted a news story about a speech by Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell’s chief of staff during his tenure as Secretary of State. Today, Wilkerson has written an op-ed in the LATimes describing, in further detail, the causes and consequences of the Bush administration’s actions during its first term in office:
This is [...]

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20 October 2005 ~ 17 Comments

Powell’s former Chief of Staff speaks out

Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff to Colin Powell during his tenure as Secretary of State, gave a speech yesterday blasting members of the Bush administration for the way in which they have handled US foreign policy:
“What I saw was a cabal between the vice-president of the United States, Richard Cheney, and the secretary of [...]

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29 August 2005 ~ 33 Comments

Support for the War eroding — The Senate Responds

Republican Senator John Warner – Chairman of the Armed Services Committee – will summon Rumsfeld to testify before the Senate over the current state of the Iraq War. This comes in response to a number of factors, including historically low poll numbers for Bush, increasingly low levels of public support for the war, and the [...]

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