Rumsfeld Faces Iraq, Other Tasks at Busy Pentagon
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Donald Rumsfeld, if he stays as  Pentagon chief, faces challenges not only in taming Iraq's  insurgency but in modernizing the U.S. military and fielding a  viable missile defense system, officials and analysts say.
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is staying on the job for President Bush&#39;s second term. A senior administration official says the president asked Rumsfeld to stay on at the Pentagon and the secretary agreed.
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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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MOSUL, Iraq  - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld  flew into northern Iraq before dawn on Friday to make a  personal appraisal of the training of Iraqi security forces and  talk with his commanders.
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The incoming deputy leader of Senate Democrats demanded answers Saturday from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as to why U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan lack protective equipment for themselves and their vehicles.
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Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has done as good a job as possible in reacting to a question from a soldier based in Kuwait Wednesday, but the entire episode raises troubling questions.
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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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Pentagon planners were beginning meetings Friday to determine which units will be leaving Iraq in the next 10 months.
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"Stuff happens" was Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's cavalier response to questions about rioting and looting after the invasion of Iraq.
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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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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has been acting like a man who wants to keep his job. Mr. Rumsfeld has just returned from a week discussing
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POIANA BRASOV, Romania, Oct 12  - US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Tuesday that Iraqi security forces needed equipment as well as training and anything NATO allies could do to support them would helpful.
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US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld flies into northern Iraq to meet US and Iraqi commanders.
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Donald Rumsfeld visits France on Wednesday to drum up support among Nato allies for the US military effort in Iraq.
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, whose future has been in doubt amid spreading violence and U.S. deaths in Iraq, was asked by President Bush on Friday to remain at the Pentagon in the administration's second term, a senior official said.
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Outgoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has been on the "farewell" circuit of late, going to see the troops in Iraq, saying goodbye to various folks at the Pentagon and around town.
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates has dispatched a small Pentagon team to Iraq to review procedures regarding private contractors, after expressing "real concerns" about oversight, Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said Wednesday.