Hanging on the wall in retired Army Major General John Batiste’s office at Klein Steel is a framed sheet of paper asking: :Who Needs to Know This?” Batiste is president of Klein Steel, a Rochester company he joined in November 2005. And the phrase, which he says is one of his favorites, is a typical […]
Donald Rumsfeld
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Bush, Rumsfeld, and ‘the values of our nation’
Headline in the Democrat and Chronicle on May 3: “Abuse of Iraqis Called Isolated.” Statement by President Bush May 5: “The abuse does not represent the America that I know.” Statement by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on May 7: “It was inconsistent with the values of our nation.” Many Americans, no doubt, […]
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King of the world
Are you paying attention? Now it’s Iran that is harboring terrorists. And building nuclear weapons. And developing biological and chemical weapons. And, says the Bush administration, Iran is stirring up trouble in Iraq. The drumbeat is quickening: Iran needs a regime change. Last week the Wall Street Journal reported that “hard-liners” in the […]
