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Some might ask, how in the world could the Secretary of Defense attack the Pentagon in front of its people? To them I reply, Today, I have no desire to attack the Pentagon; I want to liberate it. We need to save it from itself.

— Donald Rumsfeld Bureaucracy to Battlefield Speech (2001)

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