Timetable of 'Rumsfeld's War'

  • 2003-02-06
  • Gwynne Dyer
If we could sneak a look at U.S. Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld's agenda for the next month or so, it would probably go a bit like this:Feb. 16 - Attack Iraq. Special Forces to seize oilfields. Drop off dry-cleaning.Feb. 19 - 10th Mountain Division enters Baghdad. NSC meeting p.m. Condi's b/day: flowers?Feb. 21 - Victory press conf. at Pentagon. Regrets re Saddam shot while trying to escape. Collect dry-cleaning on way home.It could happen exactly like that, too - if all the U.S. technology works perfectly, and nobody in Iraq fights back, and everybody else in the Middle East behaves. (E...
 
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