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Rumsfeld Threatened To Fire Anyone Who Suggested Planning For Post-Invasion Iraq

Army Transportation Corps Brig. Gen. Mark Scheid said that Donald Rumsfeld had specifically instructed war planners to NOT plan for a post-war scenario. See below:

"The secretary of defense continued to push on us ... that everything we write in our plan has to be the idea that we are going to go in, we're going to take out the regime, and then we're going to leave," said Brig. Gen. Mark Scheid.

Rumsfeld was insistent on this point: No postwar planning! How do we know? Well, ask Scheid: "I remember the secretary of defense saying that he would fire the next person that said that." That's right, Rumsfeld threatened to FIRE anyone who even TALKED about the possibility of staying in Iraq longer than the quick-and-dirty overthrow. Why? Said Scheid: "He said we will not do that because the American public will not back us if they think we are going over there for a long war."