both the bush and the rumsfeld estimates were off by more than a factor of two. again, to be fair, in the forest of analysis on soviet military spending like in much of intelligence, there's a difficulty. just how do we know anything for sure? like everything important in life, william shakespeare illustrates this point beautifully. an early scene in one of his wonderful plays, a fellow who's commander of venice's military is summoned by the duke and senators. he's asked to fight a turkish attack that he just learned about. a fellow needs to know how big an attack turkey launched to size his own forces to rebel that attack. in the 16th century situation room of venice, the first intelligence briefer declares that turkey has lost -- has launched -- turkey has launched 107 ships. now mind you, it's not around 110. it's not more than 100. 107 ships. sounds like he really knows what he's talking about, doesn't it? until the next briefer comes along and says he has a very clear report that turkey has launched 140 ships. othello starts to look around the room deciding

some experts did react to rumsfeld declaration one of them was arms researcher di williams. this scientist is a member of the un institute for disarmament research. he claims the hell fire missile is a new generation bomb it was used several times during the battle of fallujah the experts call it a thermobaric weapons. they were using small tactical weapons but they wanted these new thermobaric weapons which are specifically designed for very local killing and what they do now is some of these are right in the targets of it they just get right the it is so high temperature it just burns everything. and that's also if they are within. maybe fifty meters it will also kill them because you get you get a bang and sucks all of the air out and so you get a pressure wave which goes high pressure very low pressure and the air pressure goes down maybe ten percent. and if you're in that are your lungs. you can breathe . williams has not only analyzed the photographs of the bombing in iraq but is also with the new types of thermobaric bombs developed by the u.s. army once again they re

part because we had spent a lot of time focusing on iraq instead. >> in october 2003 memo, donald rumsfeldsly wrote that the coalition could win in iraq and afghanistan but it would be a "long hard slog." here we are 101 months later and the president is using similar words. >> bret: set up for the state dinner behind you getting ready. >> going to be a big night. >> bret: thank you. >>> rescue workers found more bodies today inside the salvage wreckage of bangladesh ferry that capsized tuesday. 200 people were on board when the ferry hit a cargo boat. the death toll stands at 112. a series of aftershocks last year's devastating earthquake hit tokyo and northeastern japan today. this time a magnitude 6.8 quake caused only a small tsunami. no damage or injuries are reported so far. a year ago, the magnitude 9 earthquake triggered massive tsunami and 19,000 people died. >>> still ahead, a preview of next week's big illinois primary. first, how much you are paying to the administration's new red tape. [ male announcer ] the game of life with the prius c! ♪ oh, my maltipoo's depressed. but my

in 2001, june, i'm the senior military and rumsfeld is getting a brief and a young fine service what we call on ofour jedi nights was getting frustrated trying to explain what kind of forces we needed in the future to this new secretary of defense and his deputy, and he puts his hand on the map, june 2001, and said let me tell you what part of the world we will not be fighting in. six months later i was in afghanistan. so, i would just suggest that surprise is going to be a very dominant characteristic and to quote the development and doctrine center, surprise will continue to dominate our future. forecasting a future with startling events and change. that makes us humble as we look toward the future. you and i know we cannot wait on change, we cannot wait for to t caught wrong footed. studying history has helped me when i went to the nato job to reveal some of the characteristics that we ar with. and we look at current an then past history of transformation efforts that succeeded or failed and a point i learned f gray was this, we cannot adopt, we in the westerncaot adopt a s ular a

at some point, we had a little meeting with some of our members with secretary rumsfeld, and he said on the morning of 9/11, he had some of the members of our armed services committee and the pentagon for breakfast. he said, i told them, because we have just gone down the clinton- bush drawdown, he told those members at that time, something bad is going to happen. i cannot tell you when, where, what's. my study of history tells me something bad is going to happen. a couple of hours later, they hit the towers. we should know what is happening in iran right now. what is happening in north korea, china, the whole spring with egypt and tunisia and libya, and what is going on with syria. those things were not even on our radar a couple of years ago. if we keep trying down and coming back or military, we will be asking them to do more with less. we just had the admiral in this morning to talk about the pacific. the president came out with this strategy and we're going to put more emphasis in the asia- pacific. but we're not giving them more money. if there is any way to get more money for

defense secretary donald rumsfeld. a delegation of west african army. he had arrived in mali's capital bamako as part of an attempt to restore order after last week's coup this is toppled president obama due to nami touring says he is safe and still in the country several thousand people took to the streets of ghana co in support of the military takeover led by soldiers unhappy with the president's policies the self declared leaders of the coup have already have build a new constitution promising greater public freedoms the actions have been condemned by few when they lead to mali suspension for making french a west african regional body lawrence freeman from executive intelligence review thinks that the rebellion could be the result of a failure of western policy in the region. mali this was an area that u.s. put a lot of military backing into and they were trying to fight the various forces no one is. in the grip and you had a military low level officer carry out a coup still you have to wonder how strong was the government this is the continuation of

defense secretary donald rumsfeld. and before we get to marina with the business now for the update we'll start with pakistan now where in the southwest of the country six people have been killed in two attacks that the first occurred in the summer. district when gunman shot dead a u.n. employee and his driver another u.n. worker was wounded gunmen on motorcycles also opened fire on a passenger van in the city of quetta and like killed for shiite muslims in what appears to be a sectarian attack. police in the philippines have clashed with farmers protesting a us free trade agreement that came into effect earlier this month more than sixty activists through pink bombs at the american embassy calling on the philippines to cancel their upcoming military exercises with the u.s. farmers are angry at being displaced from land and due to be used for drills by the two thousand and seven deal has been delayed due to political stumbling blocks in both nations. have a look here finally to ireland where two and a half ton elephant

defense secretary donald rumsfeld. the agreement between the u.s. and north korea was a reach last month why do you think north korea has broken the conditions of this deal so soon after agreeing to it and it must have known that such a move would provoke a strong reaction from washington. it could be the case of them testing the waters and seeing how far they can go with these agreements and certainly anyone who's been watching the situation in north korea for the last several years knows that north korea cannot be predicted and and all of them seem to be in a not in favor of their own country. country's interests but in same a certain way it does play into the i think that it's not a strategy of pyongyang which is to try to centralize more and more power in pyongyang and in king jong un and and that works to see the benefit on the more that the people are relying on pyongyang for their food aid the more centralized control they have over the country. all right what do you see in general for the future of the relationship between washington and pyo

he was ceo of general instrument where he succeeded donald rumsfeld and then ceo as nextel. join me in welcoming dan ackerson to

are pointing out that if you actually look at the supreme court case which has humdinger versus rumsfeld that's not even true. well that's right i mean let's just start with the due process and issue he's saying we are providing due process we've got procedures set up inside the administration with rules there will be a pride in these cases and by the way we're not going to tell you unauthorized about how that procedure operates and and who's making the decisions he's right when he says there's a recent federal court case that's the case itself where a federal judge in washington while chiding the administration over its handling of this nevertheless they didn't have to get judicial approval in advance but let's go back to this fundamental point. and the anglo american tradition of law with law that's based on a recognition of fundamental rights we have what was called the principle of liberty and that said you don't deprive an individual of his freedom or his life without going to a court that there is a judicial check on that process and i think what you're seeing here is a circumventi

actually it links back to a number of incidents that occurred in the prior administration when when don rumsfeld was running the pentagon he took a very aggressive posture against journalists on the battlefield who were reporting news that he didn't like and there were in fact. prize winning photographer for the a.p. camera man for c.d.'s to reporters for reuters a number of reporters for al-jazeera were swept up in the arrested held in a couple of cases for a year or longer in u.s. detention and accused of being in cahoots with with terrorists because of what they reported and every case these accusations were alternately proved to be absolutely bogus and without any basis in fact and the journalist had to be released but nevertheless the acts the act of seizing imprisoning the journalists in a clear message to the press corps and it was a message that focused always on the local hire journalists and never someone who came from europe or the united states but someone who was hard locally and of course because of the danger of a battlefield the situation is very difficult for media organizations

don rumsfeld had come in from congress to be head of the office of the economic opportunity.was considered a person of interest for this. lin garment had sympathy to this. and there were several others. ray price i think. >> as a speechwriter. >> speechwriter, and a number of others. >> what about on the other side? >> at the same time your people like pat buchanan, a speechwriter, and a whole raft of other men. in interviewing some of barbara's colleagues in the office of, and the personal office, stand anderson who is here, jerry jones who are here, earlier said hey, we were young guys. you know, we were of our time. there was a lot of sexism. a lot of men who made, a few men who were probably sympathetic to this. an awful lot of men who just simply it hadn't occurred to them that women would want jobs like this, but once they discovered they did, they could, and good, it was okay, all right, let's do it. but they will still of awful lot of men who said no, this is -- >> let me say this. when barbara came in, those who did not want this to happen do not even provide her --

rumsfeld to go out and campaign, and that stressed women's accomplishments and what was being done for them. >> you were out speaking about this. >> yes. >> there was -- out of we called it c.r.e.e.p., the commitey to re-elect the president -- i think the person who dreamed it up was barbara mcgregor, the wife of bart mcgregor, who was heading c.r.e.e.p., and i -- jirkinet fortunate name or acronym. >> i had to do the scaling up of the plan, and there were trios of women who went out in that campaign speaking. they were a mixture of appointees and cabinet wives, and it was a novel approach. we covered the country, and it was quite effective, i think. but it was a new idea. >> the discrimination against women in the political conversation right now here, especially with the election, is very, very discouraging, and i'm excited about the split, and i'm wondering, can you comment on how you think maybe this book can help get that language out of here and back to equal rights for women? >> i'm sorry. which language are you objecting to right now? >> well, although rules that are being made

he was the pentagon personnel chief under then defense secretary donald rumsfeld.hu has not commented about the allegations. >>> egypt has lifted a travel ban on a group of pro-american activists. they and eries were charged with illegally obtained funds to help the rebel uprising. it is not clear when they will leave the country. the u.s. was upset over the arrest and threatened to cut off over billion dollars in aid to egypt. >>> president obama hored the military men and women who serve. about 80 veterans from all ranks and branches of the armed forces attended a dinner. a captain from d.c. was among those represented. some criticized it saying one meal is not enough. they're asking for a national day of action. the white house says the dinner is meant to inspire towns across the country to thank our troops. >>> well, today the national park service will predict the peak bloom for the cherry blossoms. this year marks the 100th anniversary japan gave the u.s. the gift of those trees. the cherry blossom festival will kick off march 27th and run through april 27th.

disposals were ordered by david chu, the pentagon personnel chief under defense secretary donald rumsfeldchu memo that did not specifically recommend the remains be taken to a landfill. an army sergeant who tried to rescue people at pentagon that day tells fox 5 how dealt with those he tried to save and what he thinks about the military's handling of victims' remains. >> to hear something like that is appalling, but i know that, you know, as military we take care of our own and that's why i don't understand how that could have happened. i made it a point to make sure that each person once we had possession of them were carried out with dignity because they died with honor and they were going out with honor. >> president obama called the handling of remains unacceptable. his defense secretary today ordered briefings within the next few weeks explaining past practices to families whose loved ones were affected. >>> now that michigan is in the books the republican presidential hopefuls are setting their sights on super tuesday. the march 6th contest features 10 states including virginia, but

i checked there was a memo that defense secretary donald rumsfeld wrote in october of 2003 that saidoalition could win in iraq and afghanistan but it would be a quote, long hard slog. he said that 101 months ago, shep. >> shepard: ed henry at the white house. ed, thanks very much. hours after the president spoke at the white house, we heard some dramatic news from saudi arabia. this is significant. the saudi arabian government announced today it has closed its embassy in syria and withdrawn all diplomats and all staff. a saudi arabian foreign ministry said in light of the current events in syria. those events include syrian troops reportedly slaughtering at least 8,000 people in the last year. while opposition firefighters with little fire power and essentially no outside support have struggled to stop the blood shed. "the fox report's" chief correspondent jonathan hunt has the news. jonathan, president obama has a different view of this conflict when compared to most experts. >> yeah. as we have been reporting here, shep, a lot of experts are saying there are absolutely no signs wha

counterterrorism would be a lighter footprint, which is what at the beginning of the afghan war, rumsfeldsed. always the strategy initially with the bush administration she's more, never going to be possible to construct afghanistan since we are basically -- a country decimated 30 years by war and, you know, suddenly look at where we are in 2012 and we have got 99,000 troops over in afghanistan. >> speaking of rumsfeld, i want to come back and talk about the gop's plans for -- the gop's plans we can do in afghanistan. that will be up next. i get cong. but now, with zyrtec-d®, i have the proven allergy relief of zyrtec®, plus a powerful decongestant. zyrtec-d® lets me breath freer, so i can love the air. [ male announcer ] zyrtec-d®. behind the pharmacy counter. no prescription needed. battle speech right? may i? capital one is issuing a venture double miles challenge. show us how much you spent last year and we'll give you 2 miles for every dollar spent on your travel reward card. up to 100,000 miles! hawaii, here we come. claim your miles at capitalone.com today! what's in your wallet? c

secretary rumsfeld is calling for smaller forces. he's wrong. we've got to stop the misuse of the reserves and national guard. they are intended to be surge forces, much, not regular forces. if it costs us, we've got to pay for it. here's a personnel recovery system that one of the greatest people in the world, we talked about him earlier, it distinguishes the united states from all other nations in the other. -- amount of effort we put in this. on the left, an f-16 pilot and an excellent attorney in columbia, south carolina. we have about 500 air crew members in the air force and smaller in the navy and i will tell you they are there not because they're women but because they're good. here's another typical story you could have seen in france in 1918 and kosovo more recently. american soldiers giving candy to the boys. the troops have set up a dog pound so they can care for the iraqi dogs. it's an incredible compassion. well, what went wrong? we talked about what went right and i've run long. fratricide was the worst thing that went wrong. perc

he was pentagon personnel chief at the time, under defense secretary rumsfeld. all indications are that unidentified remains were incinerated, then taken to a landfill. pentagon officials say the practice ended in 2008. for the first time, a high-value detainee at guantanamo has reached a plea deal. a pakistani man-- majid khan-- admitted today that he helped plot al-qaeda attacks. u.s. military prosecutors said he had talked of trying to blow up fuel tanks in the u.s., and of assassinating pervez musharraf, the former president of pakistan. khan has been held for nearly a decade. he has agreed to testify against other detainees, in exchange for a reduced sentence. singer davy jones, who starred with "the monkees" in the 1960s, died today, of a heart attack, in indiantown, florida. jones and three others were recruited in 1966 for a t.v. show about the adventures of a pop band. it lasted two years. the monkees had a string of hits, including "last train to clarksville" and "daydream believer." davy jones was 66 years old. those are some of the day's major storie

but we understand we have an 80-year slog ahead of us, thank you, donald rumsfeld. 80 years, not onedency. a lot of work ahead and we're totally prepared to do the work for the next 80 years. >> are you saying that mitt romney is a little bit better than barack obama, the keyword is a little bit. the tea party -- >> i didn't say -- >> that's their word, not mine. >> that's what i thought i heard you say. romney's policies are basically almost the same as obama's. he gives us obama care, cap and trade, tax increases. this is what he said as massachusetts governor. what makes us think he's going to do any different as president? this is why we've got to -- >> get the senate and the house. and i'm not saying romney's going to be the nominee, but of course you're going to hold your nose and vote for him. >> -- he's going to be the nominee! >> come on! >> romney is going to be the nominee! >> the senate isn't going to do it. >> justin, do you think -- justin -- gentlemen, let's dial it back for a second. the show's nearly over. we don't want to get worked up before the end. >> not me. >>

donald rumsfeld there's a lot of the blame for what is going on. i agree that it is wrong to politicize this and lay it all at obama's door, but nonetheless he is the president, this is his strategy, and it involved a counter-insurgency that is just not working, and you have a growing tide of opinion that says if it is a quagmire, why should we stay another year? it will still be a quagmire. that is the kind of debate you'll hear a lot about. host: chris in alabama -- host: bobby, a republican in oklahoma. caller: i worked on the air fit -- airforce base. we have a lot of soldiers that come in. host: you have to turn the television down. caller: we have a lot of military soldiers that are deployed, then they come home, and a lot all our friends, it is a stigmata to have psychiatric problems and your record -- on your record. we have so many soldiers that come home for two weeks, if they turn around, and they go back, then monday come home they get post-traumatic stress syndrome. we had a friend that was a 19- year-old. he went to afghanistan. he wa

and donald rumsfeld said to the belgian minister, if you prosecute we will move. the prosecution was very quickly dropped but it's that kind of sort of -- the belgians had never prosecuted saddam hussein or sought to prosecute kim jong-il. it was this kind of malicious prosecution against the united states which is extremely dangerous. >> the flip side of this, william, i invite william and harold to comment if united states is not part of the international criminal court, how can we really press others to -- to subscribe to the principles? i was struck, for instance, when the president of sudan traveled to kenya and this was an -- a statement was issued from the white house, you know, kenya for welcoming an indicted fugitive from justice and yet we're not part of the court. does it not undermine our credibility on these issues? >> but david and harold understand these issues much better than i do. the court only comes into play if the domestic courts of the country in question do not take action. the united states -- the united states domestic courts and domestic

that created a rumsfeld. now 15 years is so until it got into the 90's and we have nafta.hose jobs went to mexico. union jobs pay more. you have to have people making enough money to pay income tax which have the people don't make enough now. and they are the consumer. they drive the economy. and right now the union part in the private sector is around 45% i think that's part of the problem. >> host: what to you think of a mark zendi? >> guest: well, interesting points. at think the caller is right that in the 80's the nation's manufacturing sector got hit very hard, particularly in the upper midwest, michigan, ohio, indiana. a lot of those jobs went to the south. a lot of those jobs went to mexico and the emerging world. not only because of nafta, but because janet came on the scene and other emerging economies are very competitive. so i think that the description, their is a lot of truth to it, a lot of accuracy. i will send that i think now our manufacturing base is very competitive. if the manufacturers survived what we went through, the recession, they must be doing s

rumsfeld wolf, newt gingrich is predicting he'll win by four, five times the margin that mitt romney he's fought back to relevance at least twice in this campaign, but the question is what he's got to do to remain a credible candidate after super tuesday. the voting status not voting in georgia, which he used to represent in congress, even though getting 50% on the vote here would mean winner take away in a state with the most. the reason? gingrich doesn't live here anymore. he isn't voting in virginia, either. he failed to get his name on the ballot there, but as voting got under way, gingrich, who's taken on the role of elder statesman in the race, was issuing a warning to his party that mitt romney, the guy with the money and organization in the primaries right now might not have the same advantage in november should he get the nomination. >> anybody that thinks they can outraise obama, it ain't going to happen. he will be relentlessly negative. >> reporter: despite stumping for votes almost excludeslysh but still seemingly in striking difference, he managed to carve out a few mom

gordon former defense department spokesman for donald rumsfeld and gates. have you with us jd, good morning to you. >> thanks for having me on the show today. martha: what was your reaction to what the president said there. >> i think it shows weakness. i think the only thing the iranian regime is pressure, and lots of it. the sanctions have been good, covert actions have been good, short of a game changer, short of massive military threats on iran you'll see iran has nuclear weapons within a year or a shorter period of time. martha: you say really the best course of action you believe is regime change in iran, and everybody knows we had an opportunity, and the president had many reasons he would site why he thought it was not night, in 2009 there was an opportunity to urge that along. how would you urge it along at this point will? >> i think we need to pick up where we should have been in 2009 during the green revolution. we had hundreds of thousands of iranians that wanted democracy. i think we should have fully backed the opposition then. i think right

and donald rumsfeld said to the belgian minister of defense, if you try to persecute general franks then i'm afraid nato headquarters will move from belgium very smartly and the prosecution was very quickly dropped. but it's that kind of sort of -- the belgians had never prosecuted saddam hussein or kim jong-il. it was this kind of malicious prosecution against the united states which is extremely dangerous. >> right. but the flip side of this william and i invited harold and david to comment is that if united states is not part of the international court to not press others to subscribe to the principles. i was struck, for instance, when the president of sudan traveled to kenya and there was an issue -- a statement was issued from the white house, you know, condemning kenya for welcoming an indicted fugitive from justice. and yet we're not a part of the court. so does it not undermine our credibility? >> both david and harold understand these issues as i do. but as i understand the court only comes into play when it comes into play if domestic courts if the country in question does not

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to paraphrase don rumsfeld you go to war with the candidate you've got.form an alliance of convenience with him. he goes on to say that romney can defeat your candidate, president obama, and really that is a priority. president obama is bringing out the big gun. former president clinton is joining him on the campaign trail. is this because he is concerned about on mitt romney being the final one. >> i think they have been preparing that all long. many of what the differentials have been have been about mitt romney. the inconsistency of his character. so i don't think it's going to be any surprise if mitt romney ends up being the nominee. he has a sound record and has put into place the necessary campaign and there's going to be a very hard-fought campaign. so, you know, nothing is going to be taken for granted. it is going to be every vote out there will be fought for and fought for vigorously. >> paul, matt, penny, thank you. see you in the 6:00 hour. >> thank you some and super tuesday coverage begins tonight at 6:00 p.m. eastern with a special edition

senior military assistant to the deputy secretary of defense wolfowitz and he and a secretary named rumsfeld argued in a day at priest and a young fine officer, will become one of our jedi jedi knights and officers spotted a lieutenant colonel in giving two years of training at fort leavenworth was getting frustrated trying to explain what kind of forces we need in the future to this new secretary of defense and his deputy and frustrated as he keeps getting these questions he finally puts his hand on the map june 2001 and says let me show you one part of the work we will not be fighting men. six months later i was shivering in afghanistan. so i would just suggest that a surprise is going to be a very dominant characteristic and to quote the uk's development and doctrine center, surprise will continue to dominate our future, forecast in a future punctuate an unexpected event startling surprises in the pervasive operations of change. that makes us all a little humble us with the choice the future and a conference and meet you and i know we cannot wait on change. we can't wait for it to reveal

rumsfeld once said about another long, awful engagement one way or another it will be a long, hard slog. i want to read this quote by george will. because i think it -- you can feel a little panic surfacing among conservatives and republican commentators now. panic has to do with the fundamental indecision and -- that's operating, i think, two levels. base clearly cannot get enthusiastic about mitt romney. we have known that a long time but there was a sense republicans had to follow -- bill clinton line that democrats fall in love and republicans are fall in line. traffic tradition has been getting person who is next in line marshalling enthusiasm inform bob dole in 1996. right? john mccain in 2008. that falling line hasn't happen happen happened. there is the fact that even according to establishment cannot get itself excited about mitt romney because they don't think he is that great a candidate. i mean, he hasn't shown hill self to be a particularly gifted politician over the course of this and so here is george will. it seems to me waving the white towel. there would come a point w

he previously was ceo of general instrument where he succeeded donald rumsfeld, and prior to that heerved as ceo of nextel. please join me in welcoming gm's chief dan akerson to climate one. [applause] dan, welcome. thank you for coming. >> thank you. >> so gm's just had a good year. where is it now and where are you trying to take the company in the years ahead? >> well, actually, we had the best year we've ever had in 103-year history, and we posted record profits. [laughter] i hope that's not the last applause i get. [laughter] >> profits next year. >> you're only as good as last quarter. [laughter] where are we today? you know, i've been ceo of a couple companies, as you mentioned, and being in private equity actually helped coming into this industry. first, i was criticized for not being a car guy, and that's okay. there are three non-car guys in detroit today, and it's, i think it's the first time in 20-odd years since all three of us, all three of the major american manufacturers are profitable. [laughter] we had to go through some difficult times, and, um, there's been a lot

shifted to pentagon coverage reporting war policy and traveling with defense secretaries donald rumsfeld and robert dates. our first -- robert gates. our first keynote speaker is representative paul ryan. representative ryan is currently serving his seventh term as a member of congress from wisconsin. in addition to the house budget committee, he is a senior member of the house ways and means committee which has jurisdiction over tax policy, social security, health care and trade laws. he is also the author of "the past to prosperity" which is a specific plan that he put forward to tackle the financial crisis, and i'll turn the podium over to representative ryan. [applause] >> happy budget day, everybody. [laughter] good morning. i want to be very brief so we can get to the questions and the interview. i'll simply start off by going through, basically, the lay of the land with respect to the process. we have a budget act. the budget law says the president must propose a budget and congress must dispose of its budget by april 15th. the president, true to law, has followed that by proposin