It was two to three years late to release Donald Rumsfeld to spend more time with his family. His whole concept of invading Iraq, disbanding its army and police while leaving them with their weapons, and assuming the Americans would be greeted like arriving tourists on Oahu, was insane.
— Conrad Black (Dec. 2006)
@DrLeoStrauss Can't remember http://t.co/LMQhPo2gB2 I'm afraid.
RT @maxseddon: Vladislav Surkov reading Allen Ginsberg aloud, in English (via @peterpomeranzev) http://t.co/D4MXWiWEvw
@scnnr Had forgotten about that. Was that Welch?
@DrLeoStrauss The Telegraph did similar a couple of years ago with the CIA station chief in Athens.
RT deletes the name of the alleged Moscow CIA station chief from its original online article. http://t.co/RGwsBqxQiq
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