Rumsfeld pre-resignation memo urged Iraq shift
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told the White House before he resigned last month the Bush administration's strategy in Iraq was not working and he proposed changes, including possible troop reductions, The New York Times reported on Saturday.
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GREEN BAY, Wis.  - Democratic presidential nominee  John Kerry renewed his call on Wednesday for Defense Secretary  Donald Rumsfeld's resignation and said the official  investigation into abuses at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison  demonstrated a failure of civilian leadership.
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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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US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says he twice offered to quit over the Iraqi prison abuse scandal.
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld addresses reporters during a briefing at the Pentagon where he denied reports that he privately campaigned against a proposed intelligence overhaul supported by the Bush administration, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2004.
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Teeing off two reports detailing abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, Senator John Kerry on Wednesday renewed his call for Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld
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CRAWFORD, Tex., Aug. 24 -- Despite political pressure for a change of course in Iraq, the White House hopes to keep in place its existing military strategy and troop levels there after the mid-September report from Army Gen. David H. Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker, administration officials...
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Friday urged US troops in Iraq to keep up their morale, arguing against ``the naysayers and the doubters&#39;&#39; who warn ``we&#39;re in a quagmire.
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In the cabinet shuffle after President George W. Bush&#39;s US election success on November 2nd, Defense Minister Donald Rumsfeld was asked to stay in his post and he has accepted this &#39;request&#39;.
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Defense secretary hopes US troops will be out of Iraq by Bush&#39;s term&#39;s end. He also wants to stick around to revamp the US military.
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld  said on Thursday he twice offered his resignation to President  Bush over the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, but both times  was asked to stay in the job.
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GREEN BAY, Wis.  - John Kerry renewed his call on  Wednesday for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's resignation  and said the official investigation into abuses at Iraq's Abu  Ghraib prison demonstrated a failure of civilian leadership.
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KUWAIT CITY -- Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld expressed hope yesterday, but did not explicitly predict, that US troops would be out of Iraq by the end of President Bush's second term.
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Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said Sunday that 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 U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff are recommending a shift in the military focus in Iraq from battling insurgents to strengthening Iraqi forces along with a new emphasis on resolving political and economic issues, The Washington Post reported on Thursday.
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld indicated on Saturday that US commanders in Iraq may yet decide they need more US troops to ensure a viable national election in January.
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Three retired military officers who served in Iraq called today for the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, telling a Democratic "oversight hearing" on Capitol Hill that the Pentagon chief bungled planning for the U.S. invasion, dismissed the prospect of an insurgency and sent...