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He also served in this same capacity under President [[Gerald Ford]] in 1975-77.
 
He also served in this same capacity under President [[Gerald Ford]] in 1975-77.
 
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* '''2006-09-08''' [http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-21075sy0sep08,0,2264542.story Iraq post-war plan muzzled]: "Months before the [[US invasion of Iraq|United States invaded Iraq in 2003]], Defense Secretary [[Donald Rumsfeld]] forbade military strategists from developing plans for securing a post-war Iraq"
 
* '''2006-08-30''' [http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/08/30/keith-olbermann-delivers-one-hell-of-a-commentary-on-rumsfeld/ Keith Olbermann Delivers One Hell Of a Commentary on Rumsfeld]: includes video and transcript
 
* '''2006-08-30''' [http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/08/30/keith-olbermann-delivers-one-hell-of-a-commentary-on-rumsfeld/ Keith Olbermann Delivers One Hell Of a Commentary on Rumsfeld]: includes video and transcript
 
* '''2006-05-10''' [http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/06/05/int06017.html Ray McGovern to Rumsfeld: 'Why Did You Lie?']: McGovern recounts asking Rumsfeld some key questions at a press conference and being largely evaded, but also catching Rumsfeld in clear contradictions
 
* '''2006-05-10''' [http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/06/05/int06017.html Ray McGovern to Rumsfeld: 'Why Did You Lie?']: McGovern recounts asking Rumsfeld some key questions at a press conference and being largely evaded, but also catching Rumsfeld in clear contradictions

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Donald Rumsfeld is "the 21st United States Secretary of Defense, since January 20, 2001, under President George W. Bush" (w), and as such is part of the 2000-2007 US Presidential Administration.

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He also served in this same capacity under President Gerald Ford in 1975-77.

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The man who oversaw our humiliation in not one but two catastrophic Asian land wars, who supported Saddam for decades till the maniac slipped his leash, who participated in the incredible Blunder of 1991, who later perceived Saddam bulging with hair-trigger WMDs, who suppressed military counsel about troop levels, who confidently predicted we would be greeted by the Iraqi people with "kisses and flowers," who sanctioned torture, who declared "mission accomplished" while predicting a short happy transition to peace and democracy in Iraq, who oversaw the worst decline in our state of readiness in generations and has alienated most of the Officer Corps and most of our allies...

...now appears to be claiming (without offering a scintilla of evidence) that he is such a superior manager of our nation's defense that there are no possible replacements. None at all. Not even from the pool of experienced and well-respected conservatives.