Top General: Rumsfeld Threatened To “Fire The Next Person” Who Mentioned Iraq Post-War Plan...

Daily Press Stephanie Heinatz September 9, 2006 at 03:42 PM
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Long before the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld forbade military strategists to develop plans for securing a postwar Iraq, the retiring commander of the Army Transportation Corps said Thursday.

In fact, said Brig. Gen. Mark Scheid, Rumsfeld said "he would fire the next person" who talked about the need for a postwar plan.

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