Plan of Attack. Rumsfeld just lied about the amount of troops he wanted to go into Iraq with and I need the quote from the book. My copy has disappear
June 25, 2005

Plan of Attack. Rumsfeld just lied about the amount of troops he wanted to go into Iraq with and I need the quote from the book. My copy has disappeared. Trolls?

MR. RUSSERT: But the actual count was 148,000. But my bottom line in this is Tom Ricks of The Washington Post and others have reported that the Pentagon had originally planned to have about 50,000 troops in Iraq by the end of 2003.

SEC'Y RUMSFELD: That's just not correct. You could probably find someone in the Pentagon who thought that...

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