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Plan of Attack examines the 18 months of planning and rhetoric that went into Operation Iraqi Freedom, launched March 19-20 in 2003. Inconclusive data on Saddam Hussein's possession of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and intention to put them at the disposal of the al-Qaeda terrorist network are used by the Bush Administration to justify the war. They claim that the initiative is their last alternative in removing a Hitler- or Stalin-like menace from the world.
Eleven months into his presidency, George W. Bush orders his Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, to prepare for war with Iraq as phase 2 in his worldwide war on terrorism. Rumsfeld tasks General Tommy Franks, with radically rethinking the existing war plan, essentially unchanged since the 1991 Gulf War, successfully prosecuted by Bush's father, President George H. W. Bush and a U.N.-sanctioned coalition. Removing the unstable and sadistic Saddam Hussein had not been an...
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