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INDEPENDENCE, Mo., March 3, 2006 – Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld yesterday praised a group of young men and women planning to join the military for pursuing "a noble calling" in their country's service. During an address at the Truman Presidential Museum and Library here, Rumsfeld told the group of ROTC cadets from Wentworth Military Academy in Lexington, Mo., that the military offers "absolutely amazing" opportunities for its members. "You are making an excellent decision," the secretary told the group. He congratulated them for their choice "to be engaged in something you ... and your fellow Americans will know is...

NEW YORK, Feb. 17, 2006 – Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and his wife, Joyce, met here today with representatives of nonprofit organizations that support U.S. servicemembers. Jim Wareing of Methuen, Mass., from the "New England Caring for Our Military" troop support organization, presents Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld with a sample Massachusetts auto license plate as Mr. Rumsfeld's wife, Joyce, looks on Feb. 17 in New York City. The defense secretary was in town to give a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations. A group of "America Supports You" grassroots supporters, including Wareing, later attended a summit...

Rumsfeld's one-man boycott of China over US spy plane By Richard Spencer in Beijing (Filed: 19/10/2005) Donald Rumsfeld, the American defence secretary, said that he had conducted a one-man boycott of China for four years in protest at its "arrest" of a stricken American spy plane. Donald Rumsfeld arrives in China Mr Rumsfeld arrived in Beijing for a three-day round of meetings with Chinese leaders intended as a bridge-building trip but likely, given his typically combative remarks, to keep progress to a minimum. While other members of President George W Bush's administration have been regular visitors to Beijing, it was...

Rumsfeld's rejection of Islamic state angers Shias By Phil Reeves in Baghdad 26 April 2003 Donald Rumsfeld, the US Secretary of State, will have won plaudits from his zealous friends by declaring that an "Iranian-style" Islamic government "is not going to happen" in Iraq. But his words fell on stony ground outside the al-Muhsen mosque in Baghdad yesterday. Members of the huge Shia crowd gathered for Friday prayers were quick to spot the contradiction in his position. "I thought the Americans said they wanted a democracy in Iraq," said Kassem al-Sa'adi, a 41-year-old merchant. "If it is a democracy, why...

Failure of Rumsfeld's 'War Lite' strategy leads Allies to bring in the heavies By Paul Vallely 29 March 2003 It was the day the war changed gear. As the Iraqis preened themselves on the success of their battlefield strategy to date and another apparently misdirected missile reaped the worst civilian death toll of any single incident in Baghdad, Washington and London tacitly acknowledged it was time for a rethink. They had tried it the easy way but Donald Rumsfeld's business-school approach of War Lite, with just-in-time levels of troops and supplies had failed. It was time to do it the...