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20. Feith to Rumsfeld, “Establishing the DoD Postwar Planning Office,” January 9, 2003.
21. Mark Fineman, Robin Wright, and Doyle McManus, “Preparing for War, Stumbling to Peace,” Los Angeles Times, July 18, 2003.
22. Rumsfeld to Secretaries of the Military Departments et al., “Support for the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance,” April 2, 2003.
23. Paul Vallely, “Jay Garner: The US General Waiting to Replace Saddam,” The Independent, April 5, 2003.
24. Jane Perlez, “U.S. Overseer Set to Remake Iraq,” New York Times, April 15, 2003.
25. George Tenet with Bill Harlow, At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA (New York: HarperCollins, 2007), p. 419.
26. George Tenet with Bill Harlow, At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA (New York: HarperCollins, 2007), p. 398.
27. Rumsfeld to Myers, “Planning Guidance for Iraqi Opposition Training,” August 12, 2002.
28. Rumsfeld to Rice, “Military Assistance Under the Iraq Liberation Act (ILA),” August 12, 2002.
29. Rodman to Rumsfeld, “Who Will Govern Iraq?” August 15, 2002.
30. Powell to Rumsfeld et al., March 1, 2003; Marc J. Susser to Powell, “Occupation and Postwar Government: Precedents and Options,” February 28, 2003.
31. OSD Policy, “Iraqi Interim Authority Implementation Concept—Summary,” March 30, 2003; OSD Policy, “Iraqi Interim Authority Action Plan,” March 30, 2003.
32. Rumsfeld, handwritten note, March 11, 2003.
CHAPTER 35 Mission Accomplished?
1. Rumsfeld to Bush, “Iraqi Interim Authority,” April 1, 2003.
2. Rumsfeld to Bush, “Iraqi Interim Authority,” April 1, 2003.
3. Rumsfeld to Bush et al., “Visit to the Persian Gulf, Iraq, Afghanistan & United Kingdom,” May 5, 2003.
4. Rumsfeld to Bush et al., “Visit to the Persian Gulf, Iraq, Afghanistan & United Kingdom,” May 5, 2003.
5. Rumsfeld to Bush et al., “Visit to the Persian Gulf, Iraq, Afghanistan & United Kingdom,” May 5, 2003.
6. Rumsfeld to Bush et al., “Visit to the Persian Gulf, Iraq, Afghanistan & United Kingdom,” May 5, 2003.
7. Department of Defense news transcript, “Secretary Rumsfeld Town Hall Meeting in Baghdad,” April 30, 2003.
8. General Tommy Franks with Malcolm McConnell, American Soldier (New York: Regan Books, 2004), p. 523.
9. Franks to Rumsfeld, Department of Defense cable, “Operation Iraqi Freedom,” April 16, 2003.
10. George W. Bush, speech aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, May 1, 2003.
11. Rumsfeld, “DoD Edits of POTUS Speeches,” December 3, 2003.
12. Department of Defense news transcript, “Secretary Rumsfeld Joint Media Availability with British Secretary of State for Defence,” May 2, 2003.
13. William Safire, Safire’s Political Dictionary (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), p. 389.
14. Rumsfeld to Feith, “Oil and Democracy,” May 21, 2003.
15. Rumsfeld, “Talk to POTUS About Democracy,” April 19, 2006.
16. Charles Duelfer, “Comprehensive Report of the Special Advisor to the DCI on Iraq’s WMD” (Duelfer Report), September 30, 2004.
17. Rumsfeld to Myers, “Manning Requests,” November 1, 2004.
18. Rumsfeld to Bush, “Jay Garner,” May 9, 2003.
19. Steven R. Weisman, “U.S. Set to Name Civilian to Oversee Iraq,” New York Times, May 2, 2003.
20. Steven R. Weisman, “U.S. Set to Name Civilian to Oversee Iraq,” New York Times, May 2, 2003.
21. Rumsfeld, handwritten note, March 31, 2003.
22. Rumsfeld to Card, cc: Cheney, “Press Reports,” April 7, 2003.
23. Rumsfeld, handwritten note, March 31, 2003.
24. Rumsfeld, “Memorandum,” September 6, 2001.
25. Rumsfeld, handwritten note, October 1, 2003.
26. Rumsfeld, handwritten note, October 2, 2003.
27. Rumsfeld to Card, “Ambassador Paul Bremer,” April 24, 2003.
28. Rumsfeld, “Principles for Iraq—Policy Guidelines,” May 13, 2003.
29. Rumsfeld, handwritten note, May 6, 2003.
30. 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. 12.
CHAPTER 36 Too Many Hands on the Steering Wheel
1. Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III with Malcolm McConnell,