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SWJED
11-12-2005, 05:12 AM
For the 13 Nov. Sunday edition of the Washington Post: Wrestling With History (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/08/AR2005110801072.html). Excerpt follows:

"...Rumsfeld nods, apparently disappointed. He is interested in sharing the memo because the memo, as he outlines it, demonstrates that his critics are utterly mistaken. He did not dash heedless and underprepared into Iraq. Rumsfeld foresaw the things that could go wrong -- and not just foresaw them, but wrote them up in a classically Rumsfeldian list, one brisk bullet point after another, 29 potential pitfalls in all. Then he distributed the memo at the highest levels, fed it into the super-secret planning process and personally walked the president through the warnings..."