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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (87450)	3/28/2003 7:28:12 PM
From: epsteinbd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I remember Rumsfeld saying a few times : "it could take a few days, a few weeks or a few months, probably weeks".

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (87450)	3/28/2003 7:29:25 PM
From: paul_philp	Respond to of 281500

He never said he expected the best-case scenarios, it was the pundits and the media who said so. Rummy has been quite careful about his predictions. He hoped for a collapse of the regime (which may come yet), but never out and out expected it. Don't blame Rumsfeld for press hysteria. There was also a full frontal psyops campaign going on before the bombs started to drop. "We are so big and so powerful and Saddam is going to die so you might as well give up". We are well into a frontal cortex mode right now. In the absence of facts the frontal cortex creates a story to explain what is happening. We all have our stories because none of us have many facts. Paul

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (87450)	3/28/2003 8:28:50 PM
From: Ish	Respond to of 281500

<<He never said he expected the best-case scenarios, it was the pundits and the media who said so. Rummy has been quite careful about his predictions. He hoped for a collapse of the regime (which may come yet), but never out and out expected it. Don't blame Rumsfeld for press hysteria.>> Rumsfeld is from Illinois. We have learned things never work out for the best and always have plan B and C waiting.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (87450)	3/29/2003 12:21:30 AM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Just more of the straw men, Nadine. Nobody ever said it was going to be a "cakewalk", but some insist on beating on that one. Derek