Operation Bonehead (2) By Richard Sale, author of Clinton’s Secret Wars.

"At the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Vice President Dick Cheney, an aide to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Steve Cambone, and the American envoy to Iraq, Paul Bremer all believed that the Allied Coalition was strong enough to succeed at anything it chose to tackle. After the military victory, the initial U.S. political objective was to consolidate support for the U.S. forces and begin to resurrect a normal political environment. This would prove difficult and elusive because, as we’ve seen, Bremer had fired most of the Iraqi educated middle class and Iraqi technocrats as politically unfit: they were Baathists."  Sale

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[William R, Cumming]

What was Donald Rumsfeld's major at Princeton?

[Jim Ticehurst]

Political Science....