Rumsfeld reveals pre-war Iraq strike plan
WASHINGTON – Former Pentagon chief Donald H. Rumsfeld reveals in his new book that he urged a U.S. military strike on a suspected chemical weapons site in northern Iraq in 2003, and that he wanted the attack timed to coincide with Colin Powell’s address to the U.N. Security Council making the case for war. In his memoir, “Known and Unknown,” Rumsfeld wrote that the Joint Chiefs supported a strike, based on what Rumsfeld called extensive but not conclusive CIA evidence that the site housed an underground facility for testing chemical weapons. He called it a “fairly sizeable terrorist operation.” The prewar attack never happened, although the site was struck in the opening days of the war that…
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