Rumsfeld: Iraq Must Grow Own Govt. System
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KIRKUK, Iraq - After listening to two U.S. Army officers describe recent progress in battling the insurgency and stabilizing northern Iraq, Defense Secretary Donald H...
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Wednesday on an unannounced visit to an air base north of Baghdad that the new Iraqi government is not yet ready to decide on security issues that will determine the pace of U.S. troop reductions this year.
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WASHINGTON -- Defeating the insurgents in Fallujah is critical in the battle for a free Iraq because &#39;&#39;one part of the country cannot remain under the rule of assassins,&#39;&#39; Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Monday.
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Leading Democratic lawmakers on Monday urged President Bush to consider changing the civilian leadership at the Pentagon, one week after Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld warned against fascism and appeasement as he defended U.S. policies in Iraq.
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A powerful Shi'ite Muslim leader in Iraq called on Friday for U.S.-backed, mainly Sunni neighborhood patrols to be brought under tight government control with a more balanced sectarian makeup.
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Iraq's prime minister on Saturday said his government would provide any necessary security for an expanded United Nations presence in his country, stressing that the "Baghdad of today is different from the Baghdad of yesterday."
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Security cannot be truly established in Iraq until the country's own police, armed forces and other security organisations are firmly in place, Iraqi deputy prime minister Barham Salih said.
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Senator Norm Coleman says he has concerns about Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld&#39;s leadership because of the lack of armored vehicles in Iraq.
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Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden said the United States wants to create a new national unity government in Iraq to control Iraqi oil, build military bases, and dominate the region.
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BAGHDAD - A senior Iraqi official cautioned yesterday against expecting "magical solutions" from the upcoming reports to Congress on military and political progress in Iraq and acknowledged the Iraqis are still not ready to defend the country on their own.
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The U.S. military expects all of Iraq to be under the control of Iraqi forces by mid-2007, the top American military spokesman in the country said Tuesday.
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NEW DELHI, India  - Under fire from troops who  complain they are being sent to war in Iraq with inadequate  gear, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld promised on Thursday  that more would be done to protect forces.
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld visits Baghdad, says troop levels must stay high until things improve. BAGHDAD, Iraq - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told Marines in Iraq on Sunday that he expects more
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The risk in Iraq is not of civil war  but that the country will end up under the control of  extremists who "run around chopping off people's heads,"  Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in remarks broadcast on  Saturday.
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The United States does not have to  wait until Iraq "is peaceful and perfect" before it begins to  withdraw military troops from that troubled country, Defense  Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Friday.
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A revised U.S. military plan envisions establishing security at the local level in Baghdad and elsewhere by next summer, it likely would take another year to get Iraqi forces ready to enforce any newfound stability, U.S. officials said Tuesday.
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US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says the United States faces a &quot;test of wills&quot; with insurgents in Iraq. During a previously unannounced visit, Mr.