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Donald Rumsfeld: neocon hawk and cheerleader for war
LINDSEY GERMAN looks back at the career of US Republican Donald Rumsfeld, who has died aged 88
US warmonger Donald Rumsfeld with Tony Blair in 2002, ahead of their invasion of Iraq

“THE evil that men do lives after them,” says Mark Antony in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.

It is a fitting epitaph for Donald Rumsfeld, who has died in the US aged 88.

Rumsfeld was secretary of defence in George W Bush’s presidency from 2001-06.

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