War Stories

A lot of troops fighting the war in Iraq don't know Rumsfield.

Sure enough, moments after my son hung up, a story appeared on the front page of the New York Times website: “Marines Get the News from an Iraqi Host: Rumsfeld’s Out. ‘Who’s Rumsfeld?’” The second of a four-part series called “The Struggle for Iraq” by C.J. Chivers, the article described how a U.S. Marine sergeant learned of the resignation from a local Iraqi whose roof had been commandeered as a lookout. The sergeant then told his five marines, one of whom asked, “Who’s Rumsfeld?”

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