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On the recordApril 18, 2006
The president knows, as I know, that there are no indispensable men. The graveyards of the world are filled with indispensable people quote, unquote.

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Rumsfeld comments on his role and the nature of leadership in response to speculation about his position.

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Once again, we face similar challenges in efforts to confront the rising threat of a new type of fascism. Today, another enemy, a different kind of enemy, has made clear its intentions, but some seem not to have learned history's lesson.

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Mar 25, 2009

we went to war with the Army we had, not the Army we would have liked to have.

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