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Donald Rumsfeld: President Obama has accepted Bush Doctrine (TIM MAK | 9/7/11, Politico)

"They ended up keeping Guantanamo open not because they like it -- we didn't like it either -- but they couldn't think of a better solution," Rumsfeld told Fox News' Greta Van Susteren on Tuesday.

Rumsfeld then listed a handful of other Bush administration policies that have continued into the Obama administration, something that he sees as vindication of the policies.

"The same is true with the Patriot Act, and military commissions, and indefinite detention. All of those things were criticized but today are still in place two-and-a-half years later because they are the best alternative to the other choices -- and they are in fact successful in keeping America safer," he says.

President Obama had campaigned against many of the major programs of President Bush's war on terror, but often his national security policy has mirrored that of his predecessor.

"I think what they did was they campaigned again the Bush approach -- and once they got in they realized the 90-nation coalition that was put together was successful in sharing intelligence, and tracking bank accounts, and cooperating against terrorism," said Rumsfeld.

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