Donald H. Rumsfeld: Articles & Commentary 2001-2005

The following are Articles & Commentary for 2001 through 2005 relate to the main article Donald H. Rumsfeld.

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2001

• Rumsfeld's Confirmation Hearing, World Policy Institute, Arms Trade Resource Center, January 29, 2001.
• Jason Vest, Darth Rumsfeld, The American Prospect, February 26, 2001.
• Jude Wanniski, Fire Paul Wolfowitz. Memo to Donald Rumsfeld Re: "The Monkeys on your Back", informationclearinghouse, October 9, 2001. Also see Albert Wohlstetter.

2003

• Jim Lobe, Pump Up the Pentagon, Hawks Tell Bush, Foreign Policy in Focus, January 28, 2003: "Last week a group of influential right-wing figures close to Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney complained that the current military budget of almost $400 billion--already greater than the world's 15 next-biggest military establishments combined--is not enough to sustain U.S. strategy abroad."
• Oliver Burkeman and Roray McCarthy, War tactics split is denied by US. US chiefs deny split over war tactics, Guardian Unlimited, March 31, 2003.
• Seymour M. Hersh, The battle between Donald Rumsfeld and the Pentagon The New Yorker, Posted March 31, 2003.
• Matthew Purdy, After the War, New Stature for Rumsfeld, The New York Times, April 20, 2003.
• "Rumsfeld's Bilderberg Buddies sold nukes to Korea," Houston Independent Media Center, April 21, 2003.
• Rumsfeld was on ABB board during deal with North Korea, "Donald Rumsfeld, the US secretary of defense, was on the board of technology giant ABB when it won a deal to supply North Korea with two nuclear power plants."
• Rumsfeld urged Clinton to attack Iraq, "Rumsfeld urged Clinton to attack Iraq in 1998".
• FLASH BACK:Rumsfeld offered help to Saddam, "Declassified papers leave the White House hawk exposed over his role during the Iran-Iraq war".
• James H. Doolittle Award Honoring Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld and Invited Keynote Speaker Vice President Richard B. Cheney, Announcement by the Hudson Institute for May 13, 2003.
• Justin Raimondo, NEOCONS IN DENIAL. It's a 'conspiracy theory' to blame neocons for the war - even though they spent the last decade agitating for it, Antiwar.com, April 30, 2003.
• Timothy Noah, The Neocon Crackup. The Weekly Standard finally recognizes our manpower shortage in Iraq, Slate September 8, 2003.
• Timothy Noah, Neocons vs. Supply-Siders. The coming war over Iraq, Slate, September 9, 2003.
• Tom Donnelly, Secretary of Stubbornness, The Weekly Standard, September 15, 2003: "Donald Rumsfeld can claim, as much as any man, to be the architect of victory in Operation Iraqi Freedom. History might also tag him as the architect of defeat in the larger war for Iraq."
• Maureen Dowd, Drunk on Rummy, New York Times, September 28, 2003. Op-Ed by Dowd on the soon-to-be-published Midge Decter book Rumsfeld: A Personal Portrait. "The word to describe Rummy, [Decter] says in Helen Gurley Brown italics, is manliness."
• Hawking hawks, Rutland Herald, September 29, 2003: "There are many disturbing passages in the soon-to-be-published book "Rumsfeld: A Personal Portrait," by Midge Decter."
• Lawrence J. Korb, Rumsfeld's Folly. The radical Bush doctrine for America's military was cooked up long before 9-11. Now, theory has become practice--and it doesn't work, The American Prospect, November 2003.
• César Cuauhtémoc García, Pollyanna Rumsfeld, Alternet.org, December 4, 2003: "Directly contradicting recent news reports about increasing violence in Iraq, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told reporters that most of the country is peaceful and stable. Speaking with reporters in Belgium, Rumsfeld minimized the impact that the insurgent guerilla campaign has had against the U.S. military."

2004

• Derrick Z. Jackson, "Rumsfeld's 'fungible' facts," Boston Globe, April 21, 2004.
• Jeannie Shawl, "Former Abu Ghraib general says Rumsfeld initiated prison interrogation instructions," Jurist, August 24, 2004.

2005

• Nick Turse, "Rummy Watch," Tom Dispatch, June 3, 2005.
• Randall Chase, "Sen. Biden Says Bush Should Fire Rumsfeld," Associated Press (Yahoo! News), August 15, 2005.
• Marjorie Cohn, "Abu Ghraib General Lambastes Bush Administration," truthout, August 24, 2005.
• Transcript: "The Future of Iraq," Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's Remarks to the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University, December 5, 2005: re "fake news": "That's an allegation. I don't know if it's true yet. That story has been pounded in the media, it's very attractive for the media because it's about the media and they like that."
• David S. Cloud, "Rumsfeld Cites Contractor in Planting of Reports in Iraqi Media," New York Times, December 5, 2005. re Lincoln Group
• August Keso, "Rummy attacks press again, this time without guns," Progressive Daily Beacon, December 5, 2005.
• Rick Maze, "Kerry: Rumsfeld should be fired," Army Times, December 5, 2005.
• Chris Lehmann, "Rumsfeld Guns for the Press While the Lincoln Group Spins," New York Observer, December 12, 2005 (issue).