[lit-ideas] Re: Rumsfeld the Iconoclast
- From: Eric <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 01:10:49 -0500
So far, you've shown that the program was
cancelled. You haven't shown me, or anyone else,
who did it, although you alleged earlier it was
Rummy. If he did it, that's one good thing he did.
Rumsfeld Untracks 'Crusader'
Weapon's End Faces Hill GOP Challenge
By Vernon Loeb
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, May 9, 2002; Page A01
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld announced
yesterday he intends to cancel the Army's $11
billion Crusader artillery program so that money
could be invested in more futuristic weapons
technologies, setting himself on a collision
course with Congress over the mobile, rapid-fire
howitzer.
Rumsfeld confidently predicted victory on Capitol
Hill in what is the most important test to date of
his ability to clear the defense budget of what he
sees as Cold War relics and to "transform" the
nation's fighting capabilities in a new
environment where terrorism and other threats have
replaced more traditional military foes.
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld announced
Wednesday that he is canceling the Army's Crusader
artillery system. (AP Photo)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A53762-2002May8¬Found=true
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