Defense chief Rumsfeld won't estimate size of insurgency

Friday, February 18, 2005

WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld steadfastly declined Thursday to give Congress a public estimate of the size of the Iraqi insurgency.

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