A very revelling portion from Gen. Ricardo Sanchez’s book

 

 

This part is especially revelling in light of all the comments about the
“Mission Accomplished” sign on the aircraft carrier meaning the ship “Mission
was Accomplished put out by Bush and all those neo-cons and conservative talks
show clowns.

 

After the meeting ended, I remember walking out of the Pentagon shaking my
head and wondering how in the world Rumsfeld could have expected me to believe
him. Everybody knew that CENTCOM had issued orders to drawdown the forces. The
Department of Defense had printed public affairs guidance for how the military
should answer press queries about the redeployment. There
were victory parades being planned. And in mid-May 2003, Rumsfeld himself had
sent out some of his famous “snowflake” memorandums to Gen. Franks asking how
the general was going to redeploy all the forces in Kuwait. The
Secretary knew. Everybody knew.