Department of scorecards worth pulling back out of that desk drawer.
This from The New York Times, March 22nd 2003 …
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld declared today that the Iraqi government was starting to crumble as he laid out eight broad objectives by which the Bush administration would define victory.
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Mr. Rumsfeld listed eight sweeping goals that the Bush administration sought to achieve in the war.
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The first of the eight specific aims, Mr. Rumsfeld said, is to “end the regime of Saddam Hussein by striking with force on a scope and scale that makes clear to Iraqis that he and his regime are finished.”
Second, Iraq’s arsenal of biological and chemical weapons, and any program to develop nuclear weapons, are also targets, as the American military has been ordered “to identify, isolate and eventually eliminate Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, their delivery systems, production capabilities, and distribution networks,” Mr. Rumsfeld said.
Troops will then “search for, capture, drive out terrorists who have found safe harbor in Iraq,” he added.
Next, he said, the allied forces will “collect such intelligence as we can find related to terrorist networks in Iraq and beyond.”
The fifth goal, Mr. Rumsfeld said, is to “collect such intelligence as we can find related to the global network of illicit weapons of mass destruction activity.”
The United States also seeks “to end sanctions and to immediately deliver humanitarian relief, food and medicine to the displaced and to the many needy Iraqi citizens,” Mr. Rumsfeld said.
Military forces also will “secure Iraq’s oil fields and resources, which belong to the Iraqi people, and which they will need to develop their country after decades of neglect by the Iraqi regime,” Mr. Rumsfeld said.
Lastly, Mr. Rumsfeld said, the war effort is “to help the Iraqi people create the conditions for a rapid transition to a representative self-government that is not a threat to its neighbors and is committed to ensuring the territorial integrity of that country.”
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