Rumsfeld told "Fox News Sunday" that if the United States had able to get
its 4th Infantry Division into northern Iraq through Turkey, more of
Saddam's Baathist regime would have been captured or killed, diminishing the
insurgency.



On March 8th, NOYB wrote:

Unfortunately, we were supposed to have Turkey also...but they backed out
at the last minute...which cost us the ability to cut off the Baghdad to
Syria escape
route used by fleeing Baath officials (and Russian Spetsnatz hauling WMD).

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Who knew that Rummie was a lurker on rec.boats?