Word: abizaid
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...JOHN ABIZAID by Mark Thompson...
...wrong--is now secondary to another one: How do we get out of it? The Marines' relentless fighting in Fallujah, Washington hoped, would send a clear message to the insurgents: there would be no retreat. It was, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said, a "test of wills." General John Abizaid, head of U.S. Central Command (Centcom) responsible for Iraq, told Bush in a video-conference call last Friday that his troops were not seeing Sunni-Shi'ite cooperation in any structural or systematic way. In the south, U.S. forces reclaimed the city of Kut from the short-lived control...
That's why the White House and Pentagon moved quickly to formulate the right response. President Bush spoke last Thursday with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and General John Abizaid, the head of U.S. Central Command (Centcom), to discuss how to retaliate. According to a senior Administration official, Abizaid called for "a specific and overwhelming attack to restore justice." It would be accompanied by an information campaign that would spread the word "that this won't be tolerated," the senior official said. The decision by commanders in the field to respond with such force, he added, "obviously pleased" Bush. "He understands...
...because they believe that is the only way to stop Iraq's march toward the democracy terrorists fear." In the aftermath of Tuesday's carnage, Iraqi leaders of all stripes were quick to urge their constituents not to turn on ethnic or religious rivals. But U.S. Army General John Abizaid, the Pentagon commander responsible for Iraq, warned that "civil war is possible" if the violence escalates and conceded that Iraq's fledgling homegrown security forces remain "weak spots." Still, he said, there "is a much greater chance" that Iraq will emerge as "a stable and modern state...
...turned out, it was doable--whether money mattered or not. Seven days later, at 2:45 p.m., on a cold, quiet Saturday in Washington, an aide interrupted Rumsfeld in his Pentagon office with word that U.S. Central Command boss General John Abizaid was on the phone from Qatar. Rumsfeld took the call standing at his desk and learned that Saddam was in captivity. Rumsfeld had no advance notice of the raid; he had devoted more than two hours that morning to discussing how to retool the military for the 21st century with the Joint Chiefs, eaten a quick lunch...