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PART FOURTEEN The Long, Hard Slog
1. Department of Defense news transcript, “DoD News briefing with Secretary Rumsfeld and Gen. Pace,” March 7, 2006.
2. Rumsfeld to Edelman, cc: Pace, “U.S. Response to Mosque Attack,” February 22, 2006.
CHAPTER 45 Hands Off the Bicycle Seat
1. Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III with Malcolm McConnell, My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005), p. 357.
2. Department of Defense news transcript, “Ambassador Bremer Conference Call with editorial Writers,” July 24, 2003.
3. Department of Defense news transcript, “Ambassador Paul Bremer Interview on Meet the Press,” July 20, 2003.
4. Bremer to Rumsfeld, “Nation-Building: Lessons Learned,” May 4, 2003; L. Paul Bremer, interviewed by Tim Russert, Meet the Press, NBC News, January 15, 2006.
5. Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III with Malcolm McConnell, My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005), p. 357; Rumsfeld to Bremer, “Force Estimate,” May 24, 2004.
6. Rumsfeld to Myers, cc: Wolfowitz, “Force Estimate for Iraq,” May 21, 2004.
7. Myers to Rumsfeld, “Iraqi Force Estimate,” July 13, 2004.
8. Myers to Rumsfeld, “Iraqi Force Estimate,” July 13, 2004.
9. Myers to Rumsfeld, “Iraqi Force Estimate,” July 13, 2004.
10. Rumsfeld, “Military Advice,” April 26, 2004; Rumsfeld, “Giving Good Military Advice,” April 26, 2004.
11. Rumsfeld to Pace, cc: Myers, “Views from Generals,” January 3, 2005.
12. Rumsfeld to Pace, cc: Myers, “Views from Generals,” January 4, 2005.
13. Rumsfeld to Pace, cc: Myers, “Views from Generals,” January 4, 2005.
14. Dave Moniz and Tom Squitieri, “Defense Memo: A Grim Outlook,” USA Today, October 22, 2003.
15. Rumsfeld to Myers et al., “Global War on Terrorism,” October 16, 2003.
16. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, National Military Strategic Plan for the War on Terrorism (Washington, D.C.: Department of Defense, 2006); President of the United States, The National Security Strategy of the United States of America (Washington, D.C.: The White House, 2006).
17. William Safire, “Slog,” New York Times, November 9, 2003.
CHAPTER 46 The Dead Enders
1. Eric Schmitt, “A Low-Key Commander With 4 Stars to Tame the Iraqi Furies,” New York Times, July 5, 2004.
2. Rumsfeld to Feith et al., “Foreign Troops,” February 20, 2004.
3. Rumsfeld to Bush et al., “Muslim Force for Iraq,” January 3, 2005.
4. Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III with Malcolm McConnell, My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005), p. 162.
5. Jonas to Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz, “Cost for a Soldier,” February 15, 2005.
6. Rumsfeld to Matt Latimer, “Statement on Iraq,” October 21, 2004.
7. Rumsfeld to Franks, cc: Myers, “Codel Restrictions,” May 20, 2003.
8. OSD Policy, “Security Update: Update on Training the ISF,” April 21, 2005.
9. Department of Defense news transcript, “Defense Department Operational Update briefing,” April 20, 2004.
10. Ann Scott Tyson, “Insurgents in Iraq Show Signs of Acting as a Network,” Christian Science Monitor, April 28, 2004.
11. Department of Defense news transcript, “Secretary Rumsfeld Interview with CNN Live Today,” March 8, 2002.
12. Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III with Malcolm McConnell, My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005), p. 127.
13. Malcolm W. Nance, The Terrorists of Iraq: Inside the Strategy and Tactics of the Iraq Insurgency (Charleston, SC: Book Surge Publishing, 2007), p. 21.
14. Edward T. Pound, “Seeds of Chaos,” U.S. News & World Report, December 12, 2004.
15. Department of Defense news transcript, “Secretary Rumsfeld Remarks at Greater Dallas Chamber of Commerce,” August 2, 2005.
16. “Fact Sheet: Defining Victory in Fallujah,” November 12, 2004.
17. “Purported Al-Zarqawi Tape Declares War on Democracy,” Associated Press, January 23, 2005.
18. “Iraq’s Lost Election,” The Nation, January 20, 2005; Rory McCarthy, “Violence Will Not Stop Poll, Says UN Official,