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5. Frank Rich, “And Now: ‘Operation Iraqi Looting,’” New York Times, April 27, 2003.
6. “Secretary-General’s Statement on Safeguarding Iraqi Cultural Heritage,” Secretary General Office of the Spokesperson, United Nations, New York, April 15, 2003.
7. Jacques Chirac, press conference at the ceremony of the signature of the Treaty of Accession of the new member states to the EU, Athens, Greece, April 16, 2003.
8. Leon Harris, “Secretary of State, Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Address Reporters,” CNN Live, CNN, April 14, 2003.
9. Matthew Bogdanos with William Patrick, Thieves of Baghdad (New York: Blooms-bury, 2005), pp. 210–11.
10. Rumsfeld to Abizaid et al., “Looting,” July 9, 2003.
11. Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, interview with Lieutenant General David McKiernan, December 5, 2006 as cited in Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, Hard Lessons: The Iraq Reconstruction Experience (U.S. Independent Agencies and Commissions, 2009), p. 57.
12. Department of Defense notes of principals meeting, February 26, 2003; “Summary of Public Order Plan: Phase One,” March 2003.
13. Department of Defense news transcript, “DoD News briefing—Secretary Rumsfeld and Gen. Myers,” April 11, 2003.
14. David Stafford, “Iraq Is a Mess. But Germany Was, Too,” Washington Post, April 6, 2008.
15. Guy Gugliotta, “Iraq Museum Is Slowly Recovering Artifacts,” Washington Post, September 15, 2003.
16. Melik Kaylan, “So Much for the ‘Looted Sites,’” Wall Street Journal, July 15, 2008.
17. Melik Kaylan, “So Much for the ‘Looted Sites,’” Wall Street Journal, July 15, 2008.
18. Matthew Bogdanos with William Patrick, Thieves of Baghdad (New York: Blooms-bury, 2005), p. 155.
19. Robert D. Kaplan, Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos (New York: Random House, 2002), p. 129.
20. Alex Spillius, “Media Blamed for Exaggerating Loss of Antiquities,” London Telegraph, May 22, 2003.
21. William Booth and Guy Gugliotta, “All Along, Most Iraqi Relics Were ‘Safe and Sound,’” Washington Post, June 9, 2003.
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1. Ken Adelman, “Cakewalk in Iraq,” Washington Post, February 13, 2002.
2. Rumsfeld, “Iraq: An Illustrative List of Potential Problems to Be Considered and Addressed,” October 15, 2002.
3. Rumsfeld, “Iraq: An Illustrative List of Potential Problems to Be Considered and Addressed,” October 15, 2002.
4. Rumsfeld, “Iraq: An Illustrative List of Potential Problems to Be Considered and Addressed,” October 15, 2002.
5. Rumsfeld, “Iraq: An Illustrative List of Potential Problems to Be Considered and Addressed,” October 15, 2002.
6. Rumsfeld, “Guidelines When Considering Committing U.S. Forces,” March 2001.
7. Judy Dempsey, “NATO Committed to Presence in Bosnia,” Financial Times, May 19, 2001.
8. “The Second Gore-Bush Presidential Debate,” Commission on Presidential Debates, debate transcript, October 11, 2000.
9. Rumsfeld, “Guidelines When Considering Committing U.S. Forces,” March 2001.
10. Zakheim to Rumsfeld, “Report on Contributions to Afghanistan Reconstruction, Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), and Iraq,” April 3, 2003.
11. Rodman to Rumsfeld, “Who Will Govern Iraq?” August 15, 2002.
12. Rodman to Rumsfeld, “Who Will Govern Iraq?” August 15, 2002.
13. Rumsfeld to Cheney et al., “Supporting the Iraqi Opposition,” July 1, 2002.
14. General Richard B. Myers, USAF (Ret.), with Malcolm McConnell, Eyes on the Horizon: Serving on the Front Lines of National Security (New York; London: Th reshold Editions, 2009), p. 225.
15. General Tommy Franks with Malcolm McConnell, American Soldier (New York:Regan Books, 2004), p. 531.
16. Department of State, “Future of Iraq Project,” May 12, 2003.
17. “The Lost Year in Iraq: Planning For a Postwar Iraq,” Frontline, PBS, broadcast October 17, 2006.
18. Bradley Graham, “Prewar Memo Warned of Gaps in Iraq Plans,” Washington Post, August 18, 2005.
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