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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Briefing Bush and the NSC, Franks implies recent assertions about ____________ are overblown.
(a) WMD
(b) Saddam
(c) Bin Laden
(d) 9/11

2. ____________ is the strength of any military plan, says Powell, and advises Franks to keep the force as small as is practical.
(a) Power
(b) Realism
(c) Surprise
(d) Intelligence

3. ____________ are tasked with giving answers on what to hit, while the others are ordered to determine how to leverage assets.
(a) Planners
(b) Interns
(c) Targetters
(d) Risk analysts

4. Powell is beginning to show his anger at always being below ____________ in the pecking order.
(a) Donald Rumsfeld
(b) President Bush
(c) Richard Armitage
(d) Dick Cheney

5. Powell recalls the saying of _____________: "It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it."
(a) George H.W. Bush
(b) John F Kennedy
(c) Bill Clinton
(d) Robert E. Lee

Short Answer Questions

1. Saul asks for the job as no one else wants to head the "House of Broken _____."

2. What does Franks tell reports the "Internal Look" project is when asked about the action?

3. A year later, Bush tells Woodward that __________ agonizes over battlefield deaths and the domestic protests his orders might cause.

4. Saddam in 1972 signed a ___________ with the Soviets to help make Iraq a Cold War pawn.

5. Wanting to keep the inspections non-confrontational, Blix turns down ____________ help in pointing out likely WMD locales.

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