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Chapter 31: The Case for Regime Change


  • 1. General Richard B. Myers, USAF (Ret.), with Malcolm McConnell, Eyes on the Horizon: Serving on the Front Lines of National Security (New York: Threshold Editions, 2009), p. 215.

  • 2. Lieutenant General William G. Pagonis with Jeffrey L. Cruikshank, Moving Mountains: Lessons in Leadership and Logistics from the Gulf War (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1992), pp. 157–58; George C.Wilson, “The Logistics Behind a War on Iraq,” National Journal, vol. 34, issue 47/48, November 23, 2002.

  • 3 Rumsfeld, “Assumptions,” October 18, 2002.

  • 4. “Iraq Tested Missile to Carry A-Bomb, a U.N. Report Says,” New York Times, October 5, 1991.

  • 5. Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States, Intelligence Side Letter to Tenet, March 18, 1999.

  • 6. Rumsfeld, handwritten note, August 28, 2002.

  • 7 Rumsfeld, handwritten note, August 28, 2002.

  • 8 Central Intelligence Agency, “Key Judgments,” National Intelligence Estimate: Iraq’s Continuing Programs for Weapons of Mass Destruction, October 2002.

  • 9. James Graff and Bruce Crumley, “France Is Not a Pacifist Country,” Time, February 16, 2003.

  • 10. Jeffrey Goldberg, “The Great Terror,” The New Yorker, March 25, 2002.

  • 11. Rumsfeld, “WMD,” March 15, 2004.

  • 12. Department of Defense news transcript, “Secretary Rumsfeld Remarks on ABC ‘This Week with George Stephanopoulos,’” March 30, 2003.

  • 13. Rumsfeld to Clarke, “Arguments,” February 18, 2003.

  • 14Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002 (Public Law 107–243), October 16, 2002.

  • 15. Joseph Biden, interviewed by Tim Russert, Meet the Press, NBC News, August 4, 2002.

  • 16. Hillary Rodham Clinton, statement, “Authorization of the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq,” 107th Cong., 2d sess., Congressional Record, vol. 148, no. 133, October 10, 2002, p. S10288.

  • 17 John Kerry, statement, “Authorization of the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq—Continued,” 107th Cong., 2d sess., Congressional Record, vol. 148, no. 132, October 9, 2002, p. S10174.

  • 18. Al Gore, “Iraq and the War on Terrorism,” The Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, California, September 23, 2002.

  • 19. General Tommy Franks with Malcolm McConnell, American Soldier (New York: Regan Books, 2004), p. 394.

  • 20 “Powell Says He Made Prewar Push for More Troops,” New York Times, April 30, 2006.

  • 21 Rumsfeld, “Conversation with the President and Condi,” May 15, 2006.

  • 22 Offers of support for Phase I-III (48 countries),” May 13, 2003.

  • 23 Lindsey Graham, interviewed by Bob Schieffer, Face the Nation, CBS News, August 9, 2009; David Brooks, “Making the Surge Work,” New York Times, January 7, 2007.

  • 24. Eliot A. Cohen, Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime (New York: Free Press, 2002), pp. 185–88.

  • 25. Rumsfeld, “Illustrative List of Recent Examples of French Opposition to the United States,” October 23, 2002.

  • 26 Rumsfeld to Shultz, State Department cable, “Rumsfeld Mission: December 20 Meeting with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein,” December 21, 1983.

  • 27. John Keegan, The Iraq War (NewYork: Vintage, 2005), p. 108.

  • 28 Independent Inquiry Committee into the United Nations Oil-For-Food Programme, The Management of the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme, vol. 1, September 7, 2005, p. 2.

  • 29 United Nations Security Council, Resolution 1441 (S/Res/1441), 4644th Meeting, November 8, 2002.

  • 30. Barbara Slavin and Bill Nichols, “U.S. Says Omissions Put Iraq in ‘Material Breach,’” USA Today, December 20, 2002.

  • 31 Hans Blix, statement to the United Nations Security Council, January 27, 2003.

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