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Thread ID: 15994 | Posts: 1 | Started: 2004-12-16
2004-12-16 09:37 | User Profile
Rumsfeld hit by a Right hook By Alec Russell in Washington
Donald Rumsfeld, the US defence secretary, faced a blistering attack from the Right yesterday as an influential neo-conservative figure accused him of "breathtaking arrogance" and called for him to resign.
William Kristol, the editor of the Weekly Standard, the house journal of the neo-conservative movement, said no wartime defence secretary had ever "so breezily dodged responsibility and so glibly passed the buck".
There is renewed speculation that Mr Rumsfeld may step down In particular he savaged Mr Rumsfeld's airy response last week to criticism from soldiers in Iraq over the lack of equipment and resources.
The assault fuelled speculation that the defence secretary may step down long before the end of President George W Bush's second term.
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Serves Rummy right getting in bed with the Neos in the first place. Maybe Dick Cheney can learn something here.