Meanwhile the Bush administration appears to have launched a coordinated effort to discredit the anti-war movement. On Tuesday, President Bush, White House spokesman Trent Duffy and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld all took jabs at critics of the war. Duffy described the critics as people who don’t believe the U.S. must win the war on terror. And Rumsfeld compared anti-war activists to American supporters of Joseph Stalin. He said “Throughout history there have always been those who predict America’s failure just around every corner… Many Western intellectuals praised Stalin… For a time, Communism was very much en vogue… thankfully the American people are better centered. They ultimately come to the right decisions on big issues. And the future of Iraq is a very big issue.”