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17.
“The Lost Year in Iraq: Planning For a Postwar Iraq,”
Frontline,
PBS, broadcast October 17, 2006.

18.
Bradley Graham, “Prewar Memo Warned of Gaps in Iraq Plans,”
Washington Post, August 18, 2005.

19.
John Ware, “Blair Was Warned of Looming Disaster in Iraq,”
The Telegraph,
October 28, 2007.

20.
Feith to Rumsfeld, “Establishing the DoD Postwar Planning Office,” January 9, 2003.

21.
Mark Fineman, Robin Wright, and Doyle McManus, “Preparing for War, Stumbling to Peace,”
Los Angeles Times,
July 18, 2003.

22.
Rumsfeld to Secretaries of the Military Departments et al., “Support for the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance,” April 2, 2003.

23.
Paul Vallely, “Jay Garner: The US General Waiting to Replace Saddam,”
The Independent,
April 5, 2003.

24.
Jane Perlez, “U.S. Overseer Set to Remake Iraq,”
New York Times,
April 15, 2003.

25.
George Tenet with Bill Harlow,
At the Center of the Storm
:
My Years at the CIA
(New York: HarperCollins, 2007), p. 419.

26.
George Tenet with Bill Harlow,
At the Center of the Storm
:
My Years at the CIA
(New York: HarperCollins, 2007), p. 398.

27.
Rumsfeld to Myers, “Planning Guidance for Iraqi Opposition Training,” August 12, 2002.

28.
Rumsfeld to Rice, “Military Assistance Under the Iraq Liberation Act (ILA),” August 12, 2002.

29.
Rodman to Rumsfeld, “Who Will Govern Iraq?” August 15, 2002.

30.
Powell to Rumsfeld et al., March 1, 2003; Marc J. Susser to Powell, “Occupation and Postwar Government: Precedents and Options,” February 28, 2003.

31.
OSD Policy, “Iraqi Interim Authority Implementation Concept—Summary,” March 30, 2003; OSD Policy, “Iraqi Interim Authority Action Plan,” March 30, 2003.

32.
Rumsfeld, handwritten note, March 11, 2003.

CHAPTER 35
Mission Accomplished?

1.
Rumsfeld to Bush, “Iraqi Interim Authority,” April 1, 2003.

2.
Rumsfeld to Bush, “Iraqi Interim Authority,” April 1, 2003.

3.
Rumsfeld to Bush et al., “Visit to the Persian Gulf, Iraq, Afghanistan & United Kingdom,” May 5, 2003.

4.
Rumsfeld to Bush et al., “Visit to the Persian Gulf, Iraq, Afghanistan & United Kingdom,” May 5, 2003.

5.
Rumsfeld to Bush et al., “Visit to the Persian Gulf, Iraq, Afghanistan & United Kingdom,” May 5, 2003.

6.
Rumsfeld to Bush et al., “Visit to the Persian Gulf, Iraq, Afghanistan & United Kingdom,” May 5, 2003.

7.
Department of Defense news transcript, “Secretary Rumsfeld Town Hall Meeting in Baghdad,” April 30, 2003.

8.
General Tommy Franks with Malcolm McConnell,
American Soldier
(New York: Regan Books, 2004), p. 523.

9.
Franks to Rumsfeld, Department of Defense cable, “Operation Iraqi Freedom,” April 16, 2003.

10.
George W. Bush, speech aboard the USS
Abraham Lincoln,
May 1, 2003.

11.
Rumsfeld, “DoD Edits of POTUS Speeches,” December 3, 2003.

12.
Department of Defense news transcript, “Secretary Rumsfeld Joint Media Availability with British Secretary of State for Defence,” May 2, 2003.

13.
William Safire,
Safire's Political Dictionary
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), p. 389.

14.
Rumsfeld to Feith, “Oil and Democracy,” May 21, 2003.

15.
Rumsfeld, “Talk to POTUS About Democracy,” April 19, 2006.

16.
Charles Duelfer, “Comprehensive Report of the Special Advisor to the DCI on Iraq's WMD” (Duelfer Report), September 30, 2004.

17.
Rumsfeld to Myers, “Manning Requests,” November 1, 2004.

18.
Rumsfeld to Bush, “Jay Garner,” May 9, 2003.

19.
Steven R. Weisman, “U.S. Set to Name Civilian to Oversee Iraq,”
New York Times,
May 2, 2003.

20.
Steven R. Weisman, “U.S. Set to Name Civilian to Oversee Iraq,”
New York Times,
May 2, 2003.

21.
Rumsfeld, handwritten note, March 31, 2003.

22.
Rumsfeld to Card, cc: Cheney, “Press Reports,” April 7, 2003.

23.
Rumsfeld, handwritten note, March 31, 2003.

24.
Rumsfeld, “Memorandum,” September 6, 2001.

25.
Rumsfeld, handwritten note, October 1, 2003.

26.
Rumsfeld, handwritten note, October 2, 2003.

27.
Rumsfeld to Card, “Ambassador Paul Bremer,” April 24, 2003.

28.
Rumsfeld, “Principles for Iraq—Policy Guidelines,” May 13, 2003.

29.
Rumsfeld, handwritten note, May 6, 2003.

30.
Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III with Malcolm McConnell,
My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005), p. 12.

CHAPTER 36
Too Many Hands on the Steering Wheel

1.
Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III with Malcolm McConnell,
My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005), pp. 36–37.

2.
Rory Stewart,
The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq
(Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2006), p. 109.

3.
James Dobbins, Seth G. Jones, Benjamin Runkle, and Siddharth Mohandas,
Occupying Iraq: A History of the Coalition Provisional Authority
(RAND, 2009), p. 248.

4.
James Dobbins, Seth G. Jones, Benjamin Runkle, and Siddharth Mohandas,
Occupying Iraq: A History of the Coalition Provisional Authority
(RAND, 2009), p. 249.

5.
George Packer,
The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
(New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005), p. 396.

6.
Rumsfeld to Powell et al., “Iraq Personnel,” September 16, 2003.

7.
Commander, U.S. Joint Forces Command, “Joint Lessons Learned: Operational Insights,” August 8, 2003; Commander, U.S. Joint Forces Command, “Joint Lessons Learned: Stability, Transition and Reconstruction Operations—Operational Insights,” May 25, 2004.

8.
Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III with Malcolm McConnell,
My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005), p. 12.

9.
Douglas Jehl and Jane Perlez, “Pentagon Sending a Team of Exiles to Help Run Iraq,”
New York Times,
April 26, 2003.

10.
Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, interview with Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III, March 18, 2008, as cited in Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction,
Hard Lessons: The Iraq Reconstruction Experience
(U.S.Independent Agencies and Commissions, 2009), p. 69.

11.
Bremer to Rumsfeld, “Meeting with Iraqi Political Leaders,” June 2, 2003.

12.
Rumsfeld to Bremer, “Why We Need an IA Sooner Rather Than Later,” June 9, 2003; Rumsfeld to Bremer, “Forming the Interim Administration,” June 21, 2003.

13.
Douglas J. Feith,
War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism
(New York: HarperCollins, 2008), p. 439.

14.
Patrick E. Tyler, “Overseer Adjusts Strategy as Turmoil Grows in Iraq,”
New York Times,
July 13, 2003.

15.
Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III with Malcolm McConnell,
My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005), p. 171.

16.
Rumsfeld to Bremer et al., “Recognition of Governing Council,” September 11, 2003.

17.
David Rohde, “Iraqis Were Set to Vote, but U.S. Wielded a Veto,”
New York Times,
June 19, 2003.

18.
Wolfowitz to Rumsfeld, “CERP Funds,” November 28, 2003.

19.
Coalition Provisional Authority, “Achieving the Vision to Restore Full Sovereignty to the Iraqi People (Strategic Plan),” working document as of October 1, 2003 (Baghdad, Iraq).

20.
Coalition Provisional Authority, “Achieving the Vision to Restore Full Sovereignty to the Iraqi People (Strategic Plan),” working document as of October 1, 2003 (Baghdad, Iraq).

21.
Douglas J. Feith,
War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on
Terrorism
(New York: HarperCollins, 2008), pp. 497–98.

22.
Coalition Provisional Authority, “Implementation of De-Ba'athification Order No. 1,” May 16, 2003.

23.
Rumsfeld to Bush et al., “Visit to the Persian Gulf, Iraq, Afghanistan & United Kingdom,” May 5, 2003.

24.
James Dobbins, Seth G. Jones, Benjamin Runkle, and Siddharth Mohandas,
Occupying Iraq: A History of the Coalition Provisional Authority
(RAND, 2009), pp. xxvi–xxvii.

25.
Ali A. Allawi,
The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008), p. 150.

26.
Department of Defense notes of NSC meeting, March 26, 2003.

27.
Department of Defense, “Rebuilding the Iraqi Military,” January 21, 2003.

28.
Department of Defense notes of principals meeting, February 26, 2003.

29.
Rodman to Rumsfeld, “Disbanding the Iraqi Army,” May 24, 2006.

30.
James Dobbins, Seth G. Jones, Benjamin Runkle, and Siddharth Mohandas,
Occupying Iraq: A History of the Coalition Provisional Authority
(RAND, 2009), p. 55.

31.
Michael R. Gordon, “Fateful Choice on Iraq Army Bypassed Debate,”
New York Times,
March 17, 2008.

32.
Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III with Malcolm McConnell,
My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005), p. 224.

33.
Bremer to Rumsfeld, “Dissolution of the Ministry of Defense and Related Entities,” May 19, 2003.

34.
James Dobbins, Seth G. Jones, Benjamin Runkle, and Siddharth Mohandas,
Occupying Iraq: A History of the Coalition Provisional Authority
(RAND, 2009), p. 57.

35.
Rumsfeld to Bremer, “Response to your ‘should we pay the ex-military' proposal,” June 19, 2003.

36.
Douglas J. Feith,
War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism
(New York: HarperCollins, 2008), pp. 433–34; James Dobbins, Seth G.Jones, Benjamin Runkle, and Siddharth Mohandas,
Occupying Iraq: A History of the Coalition Provisional Authority
(RAND, 2009), p. 60.

37.
Rumsfeld to Bremer et al., “Iraqi Army,” October 15, 2003.

38.
Rumsfeld to Abizaid et al., “Iraqi Security Elements,” November 10, 2003; Rumsfeld, letter to Carl Levin, December 29, 2003.

39.
Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III with Malcolm McConnell,
My Year in Iraq: The
Struggle to Build a Future of Hope
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005), p. 236.

40.
Hannah Hickey, “Bremer Defends Disbanding Iraqi Army as the ‘Most Important Decision I Made,'”
Stanford Report,
April 27, 2005.

41.
L. Paul Bremer III, “How I Didn't Dismantle Iraq's Army,”
New York Times,
September 6, 2007.