In an interview with an Infinity Radio Corporation call-in show, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense (foreign military aggression), predicts a quick and easy victory in the upcoming Iraqi-American War: “The idea that it’s going to be a long, long, long battle of some kind I think is belied by the fact of what happened in 1990. … Five days or five weeks or five months, but it certainly isn’t going to last any longer than that.”
Postscript: The Iraqi-American War lasted for nearly nine years, and left 5,000,000 Iraqi citizens homeless, as they fled to adjoining nations.
[restored 11/26/2023] Thanks to Chuck McGlawn for his contributions to this entry.
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References:
Why Are We In Iraq? by Michael S. Rozeff
www.lewrockwell.com/2006/08/michael-s-rozeff/the-real-reason-were-in-iraq/
Rumsfeld: It Would Be A Short War – CBS News
www.csmonitor.com/2015/0329/p09s02-coop.htm
How analysts in the Arab world see the Iraq war | csmonitor.com
www.csmonitor.com/2015/0329/p09s02-coop.htm
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