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Finally, the beast is dead

Finally, the beast is dead

Erik Loomis writes Donald Rumsfeld's obituary.

Jul 01, 2021
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Donald Rumsfeld, US defence secretary during the Iraq War, dies aged 88 |  US News | Sky News
Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, left.

Rumsfeld’s upbringing isn’t really very interesting; upper-middle class German-American family from Illinois, Boy Scouts, Princeton, ROTC, marriage at 22, kids, bit of time in the Navy. He started in politics in a pretty normal way, as a congressional aide to David Dennison of Ohio and then Robert Griffi…

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