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Before becoming a word-slinger for the president, Latimer crafted speeches at the Pentagon for Rumsfeld from 2004 through 2006. Though he depicts Rumsfeld in glowing terms -- Latimer recalls he cried when the defense secretary resigned after the GOP lost the 2006 congressional elections -- he portrays Rummy's Pentagon as a dysfunctional world run by toadying sycophants and bureaucratic bunglers. In his account, the top echelons of the Defense Department under Rumsfeld were a Catch-22ish circus of the absurd.

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    jordan113 months, 1 week ago

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    No point in buying his book. I already knew the Pentagon was and is dysfunctional. Doesn't help me to know names, as that changes nothing. It just is what it is. And then there's that "glowing" assessment of rumsfeld. Puuuuleeeze.

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      fritz10213 months, 1 week ago

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      Sad thing about this is that the Party he Represented is just as dysfunctional as he and his President was.

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