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.
