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To: American Spirit who wrote (11187)	1/7/2003 7:30:01 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 89467

A News Briefing with VonRumsfeld and Myers...fyi... DoD News Briefing - Secretary Rumsfeld and Gen. Myers DefenseLINK, January 7, 2003 Q: With all these stepped-up deployments to the Gulf, does that essentially make war with Iraq inevitable? Rumsfeld: No. The situation is as I've described it and as the president has described it. He went to the United Nations, and he has -- because of the emphasis that he has put on this problem, and the Congress and the United Nations in a unanimous U.N. Security Council resolution have put on this problem, we are seeing that Iraq is allowing inspectors in and behaving in a manner that's somewhat different from that which it's been behaving in over the preceding years. ... Q: Sir, I would take you back to a comment that General Myers made in his opening remarks about the continuing flow of forces into the Gulf region. How soon will we see substantial additional numbers of reservists called up? And can guardsmen and reservists expect to get the normal 30 days notice to get their affairs in order, or will there be a quicker process? Rumsfeld: I'm not going to discuss the flow of forces ... ... defenselink.mil