Rumsfeld Stays On, Hopes Troops Quit Iraq in 4 Years
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Monday he had agreed to stay in his job and hoped US troops would be pulled out of Iraq during the Bush administration&#39;s second four-year term.
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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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US Army Spc Thomas Wilson, left, speaks to US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, not pictured, during Rumsfeld&#39;s visit to Camp Buehring, 120 km (74 miles) north of Kuwait City, on Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2004.
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TONY EASTLEY: A visit to American troops who&#39;ve been stationed in Iraq has not gone according to plan for the US Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld.
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A senior US official said here on Monday that the coalition troops will not withdraw from Iraq until their mission is completed. &quot;The mission is to provide a peaceful and
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld gestures during a news conference on Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2004 in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci).
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The outgoing secretary of defense said American troops should stay in Iraq until the insurgents were defeated.
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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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WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said yesterday that 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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Donald Rumsfeld, architect of the US plan to invade Iraq and a target of critics of the war, will remain in the cabinet, a senior administration official said.
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld likes to say that US forces will fight battles &quot;at a time and place of our choosing,&quot; another way of saying, &quot;seize
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Â· President tells US public troops must stay for years Â· Al-Qaida bomb ends showcase success story
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Description: Sen. John Kerry says troops should come home from Iraq in four years. President George Bush does not set a timeline. To find out more about the candidates&#39; policies, NPR&#39;s Robert Siegel talks with Kerry supporter retired Gen.
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President Bush says U.S. forces will stay in Iraq as long as necessary but no longer. John Kerry says he wants to bring U.S. troops home but will not "cut and run" before the country is stable. Despite differences over how the United States went to war, either man as president would pursue a similar strategy now, their campaign statements show.
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Britain said on Thursday its troops will stay in Iraq for as long as required by the Iraqi authorities, denying a newspaper report that it was urging Washington to give a provisional timetable for a pull-out.
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US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said today he would remain in his post for the forseeable future. &quot;The election is over and the president asked me if I would be willing to stay on and I told him that
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MOSUL Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, on a surprise Christmas Eve visit with the troops in Iraq after an attack on a US military dining hall here, told them on Friday that he remained confident of defeating the insurgency and stabilizing the country.