Epstein Secrets

, Bush belatedly moved to rein in his vice president, siding with Justice Department lawyers on surveillance issues; firing Cheney's dearest friend, Donald Rumsfeld, from his Pentagon job; letting Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice win the argument over whether to bomb a Syrian nuclear reactor site (we didn't)

ened. After Iraq, there has been a weird amnesty and amnesia about people's misjudgment on the most consequential decision of our times.... Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Bremer, Rice, McCain, Abrams, and others including the pro-war press claque are still offering their judgments unfazed. One of my fathe

States, which wouldn't have been possible if the US hadn't supported so many corrupt dictatorial regimes/banana republics throughout the Caribbean, South and Central American. With everything else that happened last week, (the Pope retiring, the death of Hugo Chavez, the sequester and Rand Paul thirt

n unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we dont know we don't know.” Donald Rumsfeld United States Secretary of Defense (2001-2006, 1975-1977) HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015880 Chapter 9 KNOWN UNKNOWNS Donald Rumsfeld HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015881

was both the youngest and the oldest serving U.S. Secretary of Defense, serving under both Richard Nixon and George W. Bush. We will shortly discover Rumsfeld’s convoluted view of the world turns out to be closer to the truth than Hilbert’s tidy mathematical aspiration. As well as believing there were no u

ad on, with a second army in Scotland poised to attack Norway. In truth, they had only 150,000 men planning an assault on the Normandy Beaches in the South. Just before the landings messages were decoded showing Hitler had fallen for the Allied subterfuge. Even as the Normandy landings began, Hitler stil

estimating $200 billion for Iraq. but that was before a monumentally mismanaged occupation and a civil war. Back then, in 2002. Defense Secretary Donald Rtunsfeld thought $50 billion to $60 billion woukl do the job, but he asked people not to hold him to a hard number. For the record, the price tag pas

" he said, "what history decides." U.S. troops and their families, as well as the Iraqis dying every day. are more than Interested" in whether Mr. Rumsfeld and President Bush are making good decisions. The generals and Mr. Rumsfeld also continued the administration's soft retreat from taking full res

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