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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld 1932-2021

Mr. Rumsfeld toured the Abu Ghraib prison

near Baghdad in 2004

in the wake of a prisoner-abuse scandal.

Photograph: David Hume Kennerly

Getty Images

Donald Rumsfeld, Defense Secretary During Iraq War, Is Dead at 88

Mr. Rumsfeld, who served four presidents,

oversaw a war that many said should never have been fought.

But he said the removal of Saddam Hussein

had “created a more stable and secure world.”

NYT

Published June 30, 2021

Updated July 1, 2021, 1:08 a.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/30/
us/politics/donald-rumsfeld-dead.html

Mr. Rumsfeld being sworn in

before the Senate Armed Services Committee in 2004.

He was called to testify

about the mistreatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib.

Photograph: Stephen Jaffe

AFP Photo

Donald Rumsfeld, Defense Secretary During Iraq War, Is Dead at 88

Mr. Rumsfeld, who served four presidents,

oversaw a war that many said should never have been fought.

But he said the removal of Saddam Hussein

had “created a more stable and secure world.”

NYT

Published June 30, 2021

Updated July 1, 2021, 1:08 a.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/30/
us/politics/donald-rumsfeld-dead.html

Donald Rumsfeld 1932-2021

secretary of defense

for Presidents Gerald R. Ford

and George W. Bush,

who presided over America’s

Cold War strategies in the 1970s

and, in the new world of terrorism

decades later,

the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq,

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/30/
us/politics/donald-rumsfeld-dead.html

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donald-rumsfeld

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/05/
donald-rumsfeld-iraq-war-defence-secretary-legacy

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/03/
opinion/errol-morris-donald-rumsfeld.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/01/
opinion/donald-rumsfeld-death-iraq-war.html

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/010721/
donald-rumsfeld-un-symbole-de-l-horreur-americaine

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/01/
history-unlikely-to-forgive-donald-rumsfelds-iraq-warmongering

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/30/
donald-rumsfeld-obituary

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/30/
us/politics/donald-rumsfeld-dead.html

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/30/
1011886858/former-secretary-of-defense-donald-rumsfeld-has-died

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/25/
1010383268/what-donald-rumsfeld-left-behind

https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/28/
the-certainty-of-donald-rumsfeld-part-4/

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/27/the-certainty-of-donald-rumsfeld-part-3/

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/25/the-certainty-of-donald-rumsfeld-part-1/

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/26/the-certainty-of-donald-rumsfeld-part-2/

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/08/
opinion/08rum-ed.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/03/
opinion/03rich.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/05/
world/rumsfeld-and-tenet-defending-assessments-of-iraqi-weapons.html

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