Rumsfeld Says Iraq Needs Time for Forces
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Iraq will need time to build up forces sufficient to handle a potential threat from its neighbors &#151; specifically Iran &#151; even after Baghdad proves capable of overcoming the insurgency at home, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Sunday.
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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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US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says Iraqi security forces need equipment as well as training and anything NATO allies can do to support them will be helpful.
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told the White House two days before he resigned last month that the Bush administration's strategy in Iraq was not working and he proposed a major change, The New York Times reported on Saturday.
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Outgoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld paid a surprise farewell visit to American troops in Iraq and told them U.S. forces must stay until the enemy is defeated.
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said he essentially was too busy to testify at a public hearing on the Iraq war, raising a new furor on Capitol Hill over the three-year-old conflict.
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WASHINGTON -- With US casualties in Iraq climbing, lawmakers pressed Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld yesterday about the scope of the insurgency, the training of Iraqi security forces, US troop levels in the fragile state, and an end game for US involvement.
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Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said yesterday the United States could begin to withdraw some troops from Iraq beginning early next year, if newly trained Iraqi security forces can shoulder more of the burden.
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The American Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has wound up a brief Christmas visit to Iraq, telling US troops the war could still be won.
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Under fire from troops who complain they are being sent to war in Iraq with inadequate gear, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld promised Thursday that more would be done to protect forces.
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Outgoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, a lightning rod for critics of the Iraq war, urged the United States on Friday not to retreat in the face of "the agonies and ugliness of combat."
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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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Denying he has painted too rosy a picture of Iraq, President Bush said Thursday he would consider sending more troops if asked, but Iraq's interim leader firmly said they weren't needed. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld suggested parts of Iraq might have to be excluded from elections in January.
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, addressing Pentagon employees as he nears the end of his nearly six years in office, said today that the war in Iraq cannot be won "militarily," but he asserted that U.S. policy there can succeed "if we have the patience."
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With only nine days left on his job, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld made an unannounced appearance in Iraq on Saturday to say farewell to U.S. troops, a Defense Department spokesman said.
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The outgoing commander of U.S. forces in Baghdad warned on Monday against pulling American troops from Iraq too quickly, saying Iraqi security forces are not ready to assume responsibility.
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KUWAIT Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Monday that he expected American troops to withdraw from Iraq within four years but cautioned that any final decision would hinge on the progress that Iraq&#39;s civilian government and security forces made by