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Article: A Warrior Fighting the Wrong War
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- July 26, 2009
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BY HIS OWN RULES
The Ambitions, Successes,
And Ultimate Failures of Donald Rumsfeld
By Bradley Graham
PublicAffairs
803 pp. $35"The blizzard is over!" Donald Rumsfeld declared in
the last of some 20,000 memos -- or "snowflakes" -- that had
become a hallmark of his contentious tenure as secretary of defense.
During the summer of 2003, a squall of snowflakes and counter-
snowflakes blew through the offices of Rumsfeld and Gen. John
Abizaid, the newly appointed head of U.S. Central Command, about the
definitions of "insurgent" and "guerrilla warfare." Rumsfeld, over
Abizaid's objections, resisted acknowledging the enemy in Iraq as an
organized force because doing so would have suggested ...