http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/rumsfeld/ en-us Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:03:28 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410661/posts BUTTE — Former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his wife have purchased a 940-acre ranch on the Big Hole River in Montana’s Madison County, his spokesman confirmed Thursday. “Mrs. (Joyce) Rumsfeld was born in Montana, she has relatives in the state and the Rumsfelds have always thought very well of the state,” spokesman Keith Urbahn told The Montana Standard Thursday. “They plan to spend some time out there to enjoy it.” The property south of Twin Bridges includes hayfields, wetlands and river frontage. Urbahn said the Rumsfelds have no plans to develop the property. “He enjoys outdoor sports, and... Spokesman Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410661/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:03:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2410200/posts Former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has bought a 940-acre ranch along the Big Hole River. Keith Urbahn, a spokesman for Rumsfeld, said Donald and his wife Joyce Rumsfeld intend to keep the property largely as is. "Mrs. Rumsfeld was born in Montana, she has relatives in the state and the Rumsfelds have always thought very well of the state," he said in a telephone interview from Washington, D.C. "They plan to spend some time out there to enjoy it." The property in Madison County on Burma Road south of Twin Bridges includes hayfields, wetlands and frontage on the Big... Montana Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2410200/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 06:53:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402574/posts Rumsfeld sees and raises on Afghanistan by Moe Lane Monday, December 7th Walking through this one: Last week former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld reacted strongly to the White House’s allegation that military commanders in Afghanistan were denied troop requests under the previous administration.  Actually, that’s too weak a statement: Rumsfeld denied that anything of the sort had happened under his watch.Which, in point of fact, it did not: the administration was referring to events in 2008 - under Rumsfeld’s successor, Robert Gates (who is also the current SecDef, by the way) - and said events can be more accurately... Red State http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402574/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 03:24:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398658/posts Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Wednesday lashed out at President Obama for claiming the Bush administration rebuffed commanders' repeated requests for more troops in Afghanistan. In a rare break in his public silence since leaving the Pentagon, Rumsfeld rejected the claim as a "bald misstatement" and "disservice" that cannot go unanswered. "Such a bald misstatement, at least as it pertains to the period I served as secretary of defense, deserves a response," Rumsfeld said in a written statement. "I am not aware of a single request of that nature between 2001 and 2006." The president leveled the charge in... Fox News.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398658/posts#comment Wed, 2 Dec 2009 19:23:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398536/posts Responding to President Obama’s address on Afghanistan yesterday, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld issued the following statement: “In his speech to the nation last night, President Obama claimed that ‘Commanders in Afghanistan repeatedly asked for support to deal with the reemergence of the Taliban, but these reinforcements did not arrive.’ Such a bald misstatement, at least as it pertains to the period I served as Secretary of Defense, deserves a response.” “I am not aware of a single request of that nature between 2001 and 2006. If any such requests occurred, ‘repeated’ or not, the White House should promptly... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398536/posts#comment Wed, 2 Dec 2009 17:14:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398535/posts Responding to President Obama’s address on Afghanistan yesterday, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld issued the following statement: “In his speech to the nation last night, President Obama claimed that ‘Commanders in Afghanistan repeatedly asked for support to deal with the reemergence of the Taliban, but these reinforcements did not arrive.’ Such a bald misstatement, at least as it pertains to the period I served as Secretary of Defense, deserves a response.” “I am not aware of a single request of that nature between 2001 and 2006. If any such requests occurred, ‘repeated’ or not, the White House should promptly... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398535/posts#comment Wed, 2 Dec 2009 17:14:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396346/posts Osama bin Laden was within the grasp of US forces in late 2001 and could have been caught if then-defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld hadn't rejected calls for reinforcements, a hard-hitting US Senate report says. The report, set for release Monday, is intended to help learn the lessons of the past as President Barack Obama prepares to announce a major escalation of the conflict, now in its ninth year, with up to 35,000 more US troops. It points the finger directly at Rumsfeld for turning down requests for reinforcements as Bin Laden was trapped in caves and tunnels in a mountainous... France 24 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396346/posts#comment Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:26:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2333673/posts Because that's apparently where you go when you're forced out of the White House. The only difference being that Rumsfeld resigned in dignity, noting that he had obviously lost the confidence of the American people. Van Jones not so much: Van Jones, special adviser for green jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, resigned Saturday, following weeks of pressure from the right and a flurry of revelations about his past statements."I am resigning my post at the Council on Environmental Quality, effective today," Jones said in a statement dated Sept 5 released around midnight on Sept 6. "On... Mere Rhetoric http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2333673/posts#comment Mon, 7 Sep 2009 02:34:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2312077/posts WASHINGTON — A Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee says more troops are needed in Afghanistan and is warning that the U.S. must not 'Rumsfeld' the war. AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2312077/posts#comment Sun, 9 Aug 2009 20:37:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/598498/posts He's vigorous. He's direct. At nearly 70, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is TV's newest stud. Forget The Guardian's Simon Baker, Smallville's Tom Welling, or 24's Kiefer Sutherland. The sexiest man on television is a grandpop with a throaty laugh and a confidence so overpowering it's made entire countries go weak in the knees. No doubt about it, Donald Rumsfeld is a stud muffin. Oh sure, he's a bespectacled government bureaucrat pushing 70. But the secretary of defense has a quality that many women adore. He's as self-assured as a bull in a cow pasture. Next to this ex-Navy flyboy and ... Philadelphia Inquirer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/598498/posts#comment Sat, 29 Dec 2001 14:30:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2266088/posts GENEVA — Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld could be in trouble soon for the role he played in human rights abuses committed in the Guantanamo prison, a United Nations expert said Wednesday. "In a year or two, his responsibilities will be established. Wherever he goes, he will face difficulties," Leandro Despouy, who is special rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, told journalists in Geneva. News Max http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2266088/posts#comment Sat, 6 Jun 2009 12:02:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2257664/posts Who is to blame for (1) our difficulties in Iraq, (2) the delayed Katrina response, (3) lousy relations between the US and Russia, and (4) Republicans losing the Senate?  Donald Rumsfeld, of course.  At least if you believe Robert Draper, as he writes in the June 2009 issue of GQ. "Former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld has always answered his detractors by claiming that history will one day judge him kindly. But as he waits for that day, a new group of critics -- his administration peers -- are suddenly speaking out for the first time. What they're saying? It isn't... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2257664/posts#comment Mon, 25 May 2009 06:25:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2254062/posts WASHINGTON - The Pentagon said Monday it no longer includes a Bible quote on the cover page of daily intelligence briefings it sends to the White House as was practice during the Bush administration. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said he did not know how long the Worldwide Intelligence Update cover sheets quoted from the Bible. Air Force Maj. Gen. Glen Shaffer, who was responsible for including them, retired in August 2003, according to his biography. For a period in 2003, at least, the daily reports prepared for President George W. Bush carried quotes from the books of Psalms and Ephesians... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2254062/posts#comment Tue, 19 May 2009 17:56:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2255070/posts It isn’t so much that Dick and Rummy are back. It’s that they never left. They had no intention of turning America’s national security over to the Boy Wonder. The two best infighters in Washington history weren’t yielding turf to a bunch of peach-fuzz pinkos who side with terrorists. Let W. work out at the S.M.U. gym in Dallas, waiting for history to redeem him; Dick and Rummy are leaning forward into history, as they always do. Cheney is tawny with TV makeup; there’s no point taking it off. The gigs are nonstop, and he has a big Obama-bashing speech... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2255070/posts#comment Wed, 20 May 2009 23:21:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2254973/posts A report on the GQ magazine Web site is quoting unnamed former Bush administration official as blaming former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for many failures, including a delay in military assistance in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The report says "in speaking with the former Bush officials, it becomes evident that Rumsfeld impaired administration performance on a host of matters extending well beyond Iraq to impact America's relations with other nations, the safety of our troops, and the response to Hurricane Katrina. The Washington Monthly highlights more of Robert Draper's article in GQ: "[T]hree years later, when I asked a... NOLA.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2254973/posts#comment Wed, 20 May 2009 20:59:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2254443/posts An aide to former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Keith Urbahn, e-mails to contest a widely discussed GQ article by Robert Draper, which suggested that Rumsfeld "appreciated" the practice of quoting Biblical quotations on the cover sheets of classified briefings, and that Rumsfeld brought the briefings to President Bush. Urbahn e-mails that the briefings in question were not routinely sent to Rumsfeld, and that Rumsfeld considers the cover slides "harmful and counterproductive to the war effort." Urbahn's full e-mail: The slides in the “World Intelligence Update” were prepared on a daily basis by military personnel serving on the Joint Staff, which... Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2254443/posts#comment Wed, 20 May 2009 03:33:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2253087/posts The fight over national security increasingly threatens to drag the United States into a political civil war that could also fracture Barack Obama's political base. It is turning the President's own Democratic allies into potential enemies, while undermining his domestic priorities in health care and energy reform. Yesterday, New York Times columnist Frank Rich pointed all eyes to the website of Gentleman's Quarterly, which has posted a series of cover sheets to ultra-top-secret intelligence updates that former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld used to prepare daily for former president George W. Bush. It turns out that the cover sheets routinely showed... The Globe and Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2253087/posts#comment Mon, 18 May 2009 09:45:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2252997/posts A series of cover sheets for intelligence reports written for Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld and other senior Pentagon officials during the early days of the war in Iraq in 2003 were adorned with biblical quotations, and appeared Sunday, six years later, on the Web site of GQ magazine. The daily briefings were called the “Worldwide Intelligence Update,” one of several intelligence reports compiled overnight and presented in a folder for Mr. Rumsfeld and other officials as they came to work. In the selection of the cover sheets that GQ placed on its Web site, photographs of soldiers praying... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2252997/posts#comment Mon, 18 May 2009 03:37:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2252995/posts Donald Rumsfeld covered Iraq briefing papers with Biblical texts According to a report in GQ magazine the religious texts were imposed over pictures of the US armed forces engaged in the war. Shown to only a small circle of senior advisers, the pages were first used on the eve of the 2003 invasion and were designed to provide support and encouragement to Mr Bush, a Christian who often cited the Bible while in office. Some Pentagon officials feared that if the documents were leaked at the height of the conflict, the use of Christian language to justify the invasion of... The Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2252995/posts#comment Mon, 18 May 2009 03:34:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2250796/posts Watching this clip I just couldn't help but wonder how on Earth Donald Rumsfeld manages to remain so composed. Apparently the Democratic Underground is behind this episode of harassment. Ahhh, maybe it's not harassment anyway. After all, they're just doing what Obama said... "getting in their face." Evil Conservative Radio http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2250796/posts#comment Thu, 14 May 2009 14:51:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2240789/posts Rumsfeld Rejected Waterboarding Pelosi Did Not http://www.thebulletin.us/articles/2009/04/29/top_stories/doc49f821cd5d0ae182977392.txt The Bulletin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2240789/posts#comment Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:55:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2239859/posts White House wants panel to change opinion about lethality of some terrorists they want released. http://www.thebulletin.us/articles/2009/04/28/top_stories/doc49f6bd41268ca954534464.txt The Bulletin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2239859/posts#comment Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:38:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2235925/posts Retired military analysts are reacting with outrage that the Pulitzer committee awarded one of its prestigious prizes for a story discredited by an independent investigation, special correspondent Rowan Scarborough reports. Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2235925/posts#comment Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:15:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2152633/posts Sen. John McCain (?-Ariz.), joining with liberal Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), issued a report last week on the abuse of terrorist detainees. The report accuses former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, former Defense Department General Counsel Jim Haynes, and David Addington, Vice President Cheney’s chief of staff, of causing the torture of terrorist detainees. But the report is a clumsy calumny, contradicting the factual conclusions of earlier, far more credible investigations. Predictably, it was enough for the New York Times to call for the appointment of a prosecutor to consider criminal charges against Rumsfeld and the others.... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2152633/posts#comment Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:02:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2150073/posts The announcement that retired Army chief of staff Eric Shinseki will be President-elect Barack Obama's nominee for secretary of veterans affairs has energized one of the most enduring myths of the Bush presidency. Among the media coverage in recent days: Gen. Shinseki "clashed with the Bush administration on its Iraq war strategy" (Associated Press). In "questioning the Pentagon's Iraq war strategy" (The Post), Shinseki "warn[ed] that far more troops would be needed than the Pentagon had committed" (New York Times). For his candor, he was "vilified" (Boston Globe) by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Shinseki has a chance during his confirmation... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2150073/posts#comment Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:13:03 GMT