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Chapter 37: Liberation from the Occupation


  • 1. Douglas J. Feith and Lieutenant General Walter L. Sharp (principal drafters),“Strategic Review: Stay the Course—Faster,” October 28, 2003, as cited in Douglas J. Feith, War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism (New York: HarperCollins, 2008), pp. 460, 644.

  • 2. Rumsfeld, “Plan for Iraq,” October 14, 2003.

  • 3. Rumsfeld, “Risk in the Way Ahead in Iraq,” October 28, 2003.

  • 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. 227.

  • 5. Judy Keen, “Rice Will Manage Iraq’s ‘New Phase,’” USA Today, October 6, 2003.

  • 6. David E. Sanger, “White House to Overhaul Iraq and Afghan Missions,” New York Times, October 6, 2003.

  • 7. “Rumsfeld Avoids Questions on Iraq Role,” CNN, October 9, 2003.

  • 8Rumsfeld to Rice, “Cartoon,” October 15, 2003.

  • 9. David E. Sanger, “White House to Overhaul Iraq and Afghan Missions,” New York Times, October 6, 2003.

  • 10. Rumsfeld to Powell, “Afghanistan—Embassy Kabul Staffing,” March 26, 2004.

  • 11. Rumsfeld to Bush et al., “Iraq Reporting Relationships,” October 6, 2003.

  • 12. Rumsfeld to Bush et al., “Iraq Reporting Relationships,” October 6, 2003.

  • 13. Rumsfeld to Bush et al., “Iraq Reporting Relationships,” October 6, 2003.

  • 14Rumsfeld, handwritten note, October 14, 2003.

  • 15Rumsfeld, “Alternative Approaches to Operate the NSC—Consensus v. Options for POTUS,” April 1, 2004; Rumsfeld to Rice, “Interagency Process,” August 20, 2002.

  • 16Rumsfeld, “Conversation with Jerry Bremer,” December 10, 2003.

  • 17Rumsfeld, “Fight to the Death,” July 24, 2003.

  • 18Alexandar Vasovic, “Saddam: ‘I’m Willing to Negotiate,’ Raising Hopes Insurgency Might Weaken,” Associated Press, December 15, 2003.

  • 19Department of Defense notes of NSC meeting, April 9, 2003.

  • 20Department of Defense notes of NSC meeting, April 9, 2003; 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. 334.

  • 21Department of Defense notes of NSC meeting, April 10, 2003.

  • 22. International Monetary Fund, “Iraq: Third and Fourth Reviews Under the Stand-By Arrangement, Financing Assurances Review, and Requests for Extension of the Arrangement and for Waiver of Nonobservance of a Performance Criterion,” IMF Country Report No. 07/115, March 2007, p. 13.

  • 23Coalition Provisional Authority, “Law of Administration for the State of Iraq for the Transitional Period,” adopted March 8, 2004.

  • 24Department of Defense news transcript, “Defense Department Operational Update Briefing,” April 20, 2004.

  • 25Rumsfeld to Abizaid et al., “Sunni Engagement,” December 19, 2003.

  • 26Rumsfeld to Bremer, “Sunni Outreach,” April 12, 2004.

  • 27. Glen D. Shaffer, Director for Intelligence (J-2) to Myers et al., “The Importance of the Tribes in Post-Saddam Iraq,” April 8, 2003.

  • 28. Bing West, No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah (New York: Bantam Books, 2005), p. 61.

  • 29Stephan Faris, “Islamic Justice: The Religious Militia Muscles In,” Time, March 1, 2004.

  • 30Rumsfeld to Abizaid et al., “SADR,” August 30, 2003.

  • 31Rumsfeld to Abizaid et al., “SADR,” August 30, 2003.

  • 32OSD Policy, “Apprehension of Moqtada al Sadr,” January 7, 2004.

  • 33Edward Wong, “Truce Extended in Falluja Siege, and Talks Go On,” New York Times, April 26, 2004.

  • 34Edward Wong, “Truce Extended in Falluja Siege, and Talks Go On,” New York Times, April 26, 2004.

  • 35. 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), pp. 135–36.

  • 36Rodman to Rumsfeld, “Decision Not to Go After Sadr,” December 6, 2005.

  • 37Paul Bremer, statement to the Iraqi people, March 3, 2004; Paul Bremer, statement on UN Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi’s announcement regarding Iraq’s political transition, April 14, 2004.

  • 38. Dexter Filkins, “U.S. Transfers Power to Iraq 2 Days Early,” New York Times, June 29, 2004.

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