A Case Against Rumsfeld.

[Montagnard]

RUMSFELD: We know where they are. The're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat. -- ABC's This Week With George Stephanopoulos, 3/30/03

Now for the FACTS:

Brigadier General James “Spider” Marks the senior Intelligence Officer for the COBRA II operation (the Iraq War) was handed intelligence data, mostly outdated, from which he developed 946 suspected sites that could be storage areas for WMD. That number of sites exceeded the capabilities to seize and secure, based on the troop limitations imposed by Rumsfeld

At that point General Marks requested guidance from CENTCOM and the Defense Intelligence Agency on which sites should be high priority and which sites needed to be secured at the outset of the invasion. He never received an answer prior to the start of the war.

In the absence of response to his inquiry, he and his staff continued to analyze the data and whittled down the sites to a final number of 150 sites, which he considered high priority, a guess on his part. As stated by staff later the data on the location of WMDs was nothing more than shit. One other aside, because of Rumsfeld's insistence on doing the Iraq war on the cheap, even that small number was beyond the ground forces ability to secure.

Conclusion:

Comparing the facts with the statements made to the American people, there can be no other conclusion than Rumsfeld lied!


The facts were taken from the book COBRA II

[FogerRox]

1. KNR for the lieing PNACer Rummy

[EstimatedProphet]

2. K&R