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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (86336)	3/26/2003 1:40:27 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) of 281500

U.S. brass backpedal from early war goals Rumsfeld, Gen. Myers now claim shock-and-surrender not objective -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: March 26, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Paul Sperry © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com worldnetdaily.com <<...WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld today blamed media military "analysts" for creating an impression in the public mind that U.S. forces would topple Saddam Hussein's regime quickly. Asked if he had raised expectations of a short war unrealistically high with talk of a "shock-and-awe" campaign, Rumsfeld demurred. "Not by me, not by Gen. Myers," he insisted, referring to Richard Myers, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He instead blamed media "analysts" for the impression that fighting Saddam's forces would be a "cake walk" similar to the last Gulf war. "Analysts say what they think," Rumsfeld said at the Pentagon press briefing. "If some analyst wants to say it's going to be a cake walk and it turns out not to be a cake walk, the fact of the matter is, we have said repeatedly we can't say how long it will last." But at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast held here on March 4, Myers told a small gathering of reporters that a "short conflict" in Iraq could be achieved by shocking Saddam's regime into surrendering with an overwhelming display of force...>>

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