[Ragtime Cowgirl]

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[TomGuy]

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Rumsfeld, accompanied by Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Richard B. Myers, arrived in Iraq at about 12:30 p.m. local time. He immediately met with Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, commander of Combined Joint Task Force 7, and Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III, the U.S. civil administer in Iraq.

"General Myers and I decided we thought it would be a useful thing for us to go to Iraq and to meet with some people who have been involved in various aspects of things that are important to us.."

"We're not on an inspection tour, we're not inspectors, we're not inspector generals.."

"I'm going to be there a relatively short period of time. I'm one person; I'll do my best."

For security reasons, officials are releasing no further details of the visit.

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 Rummy (good news for the good guys), ping. *

[Piquaboy]

Of course the media is doing everything they can to disparage the trip.

[hemogoblin]

" ... and to meet with some people who have been involved in various aspects of things that are important to us,"

Classic Rumsfeld!

The Situation
Things will not be necessarily continuous.
The fact that they are something other than perfectly continuous
Ought not to be characterized as a pause.
There will be some things that people will see.
There will be some things that people won't see.
And life goes on.

—Oct. 12, 2001, Department of Defense news briefing

From The Poetry of Donald Rumsfeld

[theFIRMbss]

>Rumsfeld Arrives in Baghdad

As soon as I heard,
I thought, 'Oh-no, this must be
like a goodbye tour . . .'

I wonder if that
is what's going on, if he's
going to resign . . .