I’m old enough to remember when we were promised by then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and his commander-in-chief, George W. Bush, that when the fireworks began in Baghdad, launching the Iraqi phase of the Global War on Terror, you’d know it by the shock and awe of it all.
That was March 19th, 2003. And it was shock and awe. The true number is classified to this day, but that wave of strikes conducted on targets in the Saddam Hussein Baathist regime of Iraq numbered around 300 and covered an area roughly a third of the size of what was undertaken over this weekend. It was shock and awe, but Hussein survived the initial hit, as did many of his most trusted loyalists. It took nine months to finally pull the Iraqi despot out of his spider hole. Nine months.
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