Rumsfeld: War in Iraq could still be won
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FALLUJAH (Iraq) - US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld paid a surprise Christmas visit to Iraq yesterday and told US troops the war could still be won.
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The United States may be able to reduce its troop levels in Iraq after this country's January elections if security improves and local forces continue to expand and become more effective, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld says.
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Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld visited Iraq to gauge efforts to calm violence ahead of January elections. &quot;They know they cannot defeat us militarily.
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AL ASAD AIR BASE, Iraq - The United States may be able to reduce its troop levels in Iraq after the January elections if security improves and Iraqi government forces continue to expand and improve, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Sunday...
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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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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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NASHVILLE, Tenn.  - President Bush said on Tuesday  the war on terror could be won by America and explained away an  earlier comment that it could not be by blaming his lack of  articulation.
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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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President Bush has asked Defense  Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to stay on in Bush's second term to  keep running the Iraq war and adapting the U.S. military to  face post-Cold War threats like terrorism, a senior Bush  administration official said on Friday.
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MUNICH, Feb. 12 -- Speaking in a nation whose leaders have consistently criticized the U.S.-led war in Iraq, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on Saturday told a gathering of top security officials here that global allies can surmount their differences in order to fight a worldwide war on extremism.
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said today that he expected American troops to withdraw from Iraq within four years, but he cautioned that any final decision hinged on
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld is in Iraq, a Pentagon spokesman said Saturday.
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The U.S. military is unlikely to reduce forces in Iraq before next spring because the current contingent of more than 140,000 troops is battling sectarian violence that could prove "fatal" to the country if not arrested, the top American commander in the Middle East said yesterday.
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The US secretary of defence Donald Rumsfeld talks to US marines in a camp near the Iraqi town of Falluja. Photo: Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters.
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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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The US Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, wouldn&#39;t call it the final showdown with the Iraqi insurgents. They&#39;re determined, he said, and it&#39;s going to take time to defeat them.
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WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday he is confident the interim Iraqi government will find a way to retake cities now in the hands of insurgents...