Rumsfeld Urged Staff to Exaggerate Terror Threat

From the Desk of Donald Rumsfeld . . .

By Robin WrightWashington Post Staff Writer Thursday, November 1, 2007; Page A01
In a series of internal musings and memos to his staff, then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld argued that Muslims avoid "physical labor" and wrote of the need to "keep elevating the threat," "link Iraq to Iran" and develop "bumper sticker statements" to rally public support for an increasingly unpopular war.