politico.com - 5/19/2009
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An aide to former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Keith Urbahn, e-mails to contest a widely-discussed GQ article by Robert Draper, which suggested that Rumsfeld "appreciated" the practice of quoting Biblical quotations on the cover sheets of classified briefings, and that Rumsfeld ...
men.style.com - 5/17/2009
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men.style.com —
Former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld has always answered
his detractors by claiming that history will one day...
judge him kindly. But as he waits for that day, a new group of critics his administration peers are suddenly speaking out for the first ...
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AND HE SHALL BE JUDGED: GQ Features on men.style.com
men.style.com - 5/17/2009
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men.style.com —
Former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld has always answered
his detractors by claiming that history will one day...
judge him kindly. But as he waits for that day, a new group of critics his administration peers are suddenly speaking out for the first ...
(more)
AND HE SHALL BE JUDGED: GQ Features on men.style.com
mudvillegazette.com - 5/20/2009
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mudvillegazette.com —
...damned if you don't. Al Jazeera TV: ABC:
Though a discussion about what to do with the...
Bibles was captured on video, Pentagon officials said the end result that the Bibles were not distributed but confiscated by the chaplain -- which is not shown in the footage. "A ...
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Damned if you do...
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Rumsfeld disputes GQ report
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... of, or personally shown the slides to President Bush is flat wrong. It did not happen. Given that Draper used anonymous sources for this charge as well as for the rest of the innuendo in his piece, one would think he might have at least done a cursory review of the facts. He might then have avoided being taken by people with an axe grind. When Draper goes back and checks reality against his reporting, he might also check whether GQ is in need of a new gossip columnist. Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0509/Rumsfeld_di...
Rummy Denies GQ Report
Weekly Standard Blog —
A statement after my own heart from Rummy aide Keith Urbahn:
The slides in the “World Intelligence Update” were prepared on a daily basis by military personnel serving on the Joint Staff, which reported to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, not the Secretary of Defense. The report was briefed regularly to senior military officials in the Pentagon – only occasionally to the Secretary of Defense and not to the President of the United States.
Rumsfeld was fully aware that words and actions could be harmful and counterproductive to the ...
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Things that you’re liable to read in the Bible
balloon-juice.com 5/17/2009 — According to Frank Rich , GQ will post some very interesting reports from journalist Robert Draper tomorrow:
Draper reports that Rumsfeld’s monomaniacal determination to protect his Pentagon turf led him to hobble and antagonize ...
A Response From Donald Rumsfeld
politics.theatlantic.com 5/20/2009 — Keith Urbahn, a spokesman for former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, e-mails a statement denying that Rumsfeld had anything to do with the Christianization of those World Intelligence Update cover slides. The slides in the "World Intelligence ...
Sunday Reading: Draper on Rumsfeld —
Ben Smith's Blog
Another remarkable piece from Robert Draper, this one on Bush and Rummy and the war.
MoDo appears to have lifted a graf from Josh Marshall.
Cutter goes from Treasury to SCOTUS fight.
Kristol wants more fighting Republicans like Cheney.
Same sex marriage is a problem because of the cost? ...
The Problem that was Don Rumsfeld —
PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts
Robert Draper has a scathing piece on Donald Rumsfeld in GQ ( AND HE SHALL BE JUDGED ) which amplifies a lot of standing critiques of Rumsfeld and includes an odd, if not creepy, bit of manipulation of Bush via the usage of Bible verses on intelligence briefing on Iraq:
The briefing’s cover ...
Rumsfeld used Bible verses on Iraq memos —
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Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld headlined top-secret memos on the war in Iraq with Bible verses, GQ's Robert Draper reveals in a new profile.
The cover sheet for a memo on April 10, 2003, for example, shows a picture of U.S. soldiers tearing down the infamous statue of Saddam Hussein ...
Draper on Rumsfeld —
Political Animal
DRAPER ON RUMSFELD.... Frank Rich teased the new blockbuster article in his NYT column today, noting that GQ has run an important new piece by Robert Draper, "adding new details to the ample dossier on how Donald Rumsfeld's corrupt and...
Obama Can't Turn the Page on Bush —
Daily Kos
Frank Rich at The New York Times writes TO paraphrase Al Pacino in "Godfather III," just when we thought we were out, the Bush mob keeps pulling us back in. And will keep doing so. No matter how hard President Obama tries to turn the page on the previous administration, he can’t. ...