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A Beginning in April 2006, a growing list of retired generals are calling -- some who have served in Iraq -- have called for Rumsfeld's resignation.

"Ret. *Army Gen. General John Riggs [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/12/AR2006041201114_2.html told] the ''Washington Post'' recently" that "his peer group is 'a pretty closemouthed bunch' but that, even so, his sense is <b>'everyone pretty much thinks Rumsfeld and the bunch around him should be cleared out.'</b>" [http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/13/the-chorus-grows-another-general-calls-for-rumsfelds-resignation/]

"*General Riggs told [[National Public Radio]] that "Mr Rumsfeld had instilled a culture of arrogance among the civilian administrators of the war." [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-2134803,00.html]

"*Lieutenant-General Greg Newbold, the "former director of operations for the [[Joint Chiefs of Staff]], [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1181629,00.html wrote] in ''Time'' magazine that the [[invasion of Iraq]] 'was done with a casualness and swagger that are the special province of those who have never had to execute these missions — or bury the results'. He added: 'The cost of flawed leadership continues to be paid in blood'." [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-2134803,00.html]

"*Major-General Paul Eaton, "who oversaw the training of Iraqi troops in 2003-04, [http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/03/19/opinion/edeaton.php wrote] an opinion piece for ''The New York Times'' calling for Mr Rumsfeld to go because he was 'incompetent strategically, operationally and tactically'." [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-2134803,00.html]

"Retired *Marine Gen General [[Anthony Zinni]] "told [[CNN]] that Mr Rumsfeld should be held responsible for a series of mistakes, beginning with 'throwing away ten years worth of planning, plans that had taken into account what we would face in an occupation of Iraq'." [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-2134803,00.html] [http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/02/zinni-media/]

"*Major General John Batiste, "who commanded the 1st Infantry Division in Iraq in 2004-05, said: 'I believe we need a fresh start at the Pentagon... We need leadership up there that respects the military as they expect the military to respect them.' ... General Batiste’s comments have particular resonance within the Army because he was offered a promotion if he returned to Iraq as second-in-command. He declined and quit the military in November, reportedly because he no longer wished to serve under Mr Rumsfeld." [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-2134803,00.html][http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/12/AR2006041201114.html]

"*Major General Charles Swannack "who led the US Army’s 82nd Airborne Division in Iraq in 2004, accused the Defence Secretary of 'absolute failures'." [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-2134803,00.html]

====2001====*[http://www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arms/updates/012901.htm Rumsfeld's Confirmation Hearing], [[World Policy Institute]], Arms Trade Resource Center, January 29, 2001.*Jason Vest, [http://www.prospect.org/print/V12/4/vest-j.html Darth Rumsfeld], ''The American Prospect'', February 26, 2001.*[[Jude Wanniski]], [http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1989.htm Fire Paul Wolfowitz.] Memo to Donald Rumsfeld Re: "The Monkeys on your Back", ''informationclearinghouse'', October 9, 2001. Also see [[Albert Wohlstetter]].  ====2003====*Jim Lobe, [http://www.fpif.org/commentary/2003/0301pnac_body.html Pump Up the Pentagon, Hawks Tell Bush], ''Foreign Policy in Focus'', January 28, 2003: "Last week a group of influential right-wing figures close to Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld and Vice President [[Dick Cheney]] complained that the current military budget of almost $400 billion--already greater than the world's 15 next-biggest military establishments combined--is not enough to sustain U.S. strategy abroad."*Oliver Burkeman and Roray McCarthy, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,926218,00.html War tactics split is denied by US. US chiefs deny split over war tactics], ''Guardian Unlimited'', March 31, 2003.* Seymour Hersh, [http://www.newyorker.com/printable/?fact/030407fa_fact1 The battle between Donald Rumsfeld and the Pentagon] ''The New Yorker'', Posted March 31, 2003.*Matthew Purdy, [http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/international/worldspecial/20RUMS.html?th After the War, New Stature for Rumsfeld], ''The New York Times'', April 20, 2003.*[http://houston.indymedia.org/news/2003/04/11292.php Rumsfeld's Bilderberg Buddies sold nukes to Korea], Houston Independent Media Center, April 21, 2003.*[http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=105&sid=1648385 Rumsfeld was on ABB board during deal with North Korea], "Donald Rumsfeld, the US secretary of defense, was on the board of technology giant ABB when it won a deal to supply North Korea with two nuclear power plants."*[http://www.sundayherald.com/32185 Rumsfeld urged Clinton to attack Iraq], "Rumsfeld urged Clinton to attack Iraq in 1998".*[http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,866942,00.html FLASH BACK:Rumsfeld offered help to Saddam], "Declassified papers leave the White House hawk exposed over his role during the Iran-Iraq war".*[http://www.hudson.org/ James H. Doolittle Award Honoring Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld and Invited Keynote Speaker Vice President Richard B. Cheney], Announcement by the [[Hudson Institute]] for May 13, 2003.*Justin Raimondo, [http://www.antiwar.com/justin/justincol.html NEOCONS IN DENIAL. It's a 'conspiracy theory' to blame neocons for the war - even though they spent the last decade agitating for it], Antiwar.com, April 30, 2003.*Timothy Noah, [http://slate.msn.com/id/2088060/ The Neocon Crackup. ''The Weekly Standard'' finally recognizes our manpower shortage in Iraq], ''Slate'' September 8, 2003.*Timothy Noah, [http://slate.msn.com/id/2088122/ Neocons vs. Supply-Siders. The coming war over Iraq], ''Slate'', September 9, 2003.*[[Tom Donnelly]], [http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/072yiwoh.asp Secretary of Stubbornness], ''The Weekly Standard'', September 15, 2003: "Donald Rumsfeld can claim, as much as any man, to be the architect of victory in [[Operation Iraqi Freedom]]. History might also tag him as the architect of defeat in the larger war for Iraq."*Maureen Dowd, [http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/28/opinion/28DOWD.html?th Drunk on Rummy], ''New York Times'', September 28, 2003. Op-Ed by Dowd on the soon& Commentary 2001-2005|2001 to-be-published [[Midge Decter]] book ''Rumsfeld: A Personal Portrait''. "The word to describe Rummy, [Decter] says in Helen Gurley Brown italics, is '''<i>manliness</i>'''."*[http://rutlandherald.com/Columns/Article/72343.html Hawking hawks], ''Rutland Herald'', September 29, 2003: "There are many disturbing passages in the soon-to-be-published book "Rumsfeld: A Personal Portrait," by Midge Decter."*Lawrence J. Korb, [http://www.prospect.org/print/V14/10/korb-l.html Rumsfeld's Folly. The radical Bush doctrine for America's military was cooked up long before 9-11. Now, theory has become practice--and it doesn't work2005], ''The American Prospect'', November 2003.*César Cuauhtémoc García, [http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17322 Pollyanna Rumsfeld], ''Alternet.org'', December 4, 2003: "Directly contradicting recent news reports about increasing violence in Iraq, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told reporters that most of the country is peaceful and stable. Speaking with reporters in Belgium, Rumsfeld minimized the impact that the insurgent guerilla campaign has had against the U.S. military." ====2004====*Derrick Z. Jackson, [http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/04/21/rumsfelds_fungible_facts/ "Rumsfeld's 'fungible' facts,"] ''Boston Globe'', April 21, 2004. ====2005====*Nick Turse, [http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=3077%20 "Rummy Watch,"] ''Tom Dispatch'', June 3, 2005.*Randall Chase, [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050816/ap_on_re_us/biden_politics;_ylt=AuKmstVHejnxOy0aB_7xB_WyFz4D;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl "Sen. Biden Says Bush Should Fire Rumsfeld,"] Associated Press (Yahoo! News), August 15, 2005.*[http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2005/tr20051205-secdef4421.html Transcript: "The Future of Iraq,"] Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's Remarks to the [[Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University]], December 5, 2005: re "fake news": "That's an allegation. I don't know if it's true yet. That story has been pounded in the media, it's very attractive for the media because it's about the media and they like that."*David S. Cloud, [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/05/politics/05cnd-rumsfeld.html "Rumsfeld Cites Contractor in Planting of Reports in Iraqi Media,"] ''New York Times'', December 5, 2005. re [[Lincoln Group]]*August Keso, [http://progressivedailybeacon.com/commentary.php?id=870 "Rummy attacks press again, this time without guns,"] ''Progressive Daily Beacon'', December 5, 2005.*Rick Maze, [http://www.armytimes.com/print.php?f=1-292925-1394500.php "Kerry: Rumsfeld should be fired,"] ''Army Times'', December 5, 2005.*Chris Lehmann, [http://www.observer.com/opinions_nationalobserver.asp "Rumsfeld Guns for the Press While the Lincoln Group Spins,"] ''New York Observer'', December 12, 2005 (issue).