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...Lieut. General David McKiernan, head of the U.S. military's land component, is ordered to move his headquarters to Florida, removing from Iraq hundreds of intelligence officers. Some U.S. intelligence officials view the loss of these assets as the gravest error in the battle against the insurgency. General Ricardo Sanchez, who takes over, has to restart intelligence gathering essentially from scratch...
...rush to Baghdad, critics say, laid the groundwork for trouble to come. In one prewar briefing, for example, Lieut. General David McKiernan--who commanded the land component of the coalition forces--asked Franks what should be done if his troops found Iraqi arms caches on the way to Baghdad. "Just put a lock on 'em and go, Dave," Franks replied, according to a former U.S. Central Command (Centcom) officer. Of course, you couldn't simply put a lock on ammunition dumps that stretched for several square miles--dumps that would soon be stripped and provide a steady source of weaponry...
...soon subside. On May 1, President George W. Bush announced, "Major combat operations in Iraq have ended," on the deck of an aircraft carrier, near a banner that read MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. Shortly thereafter, Franks moved his headquarters from Qatar back to Florida. He was followed there in June by McKiernan, whose Baghdad operation included several hundred intelligence officers who had been keeping track of the situation on the ground. "Allowing McKiernan to leave was the worst decision of the war," says one of his superiors. (The decision, he says, was Franks'.) "We replaced an operational force with a tactical force...
...Even McKiernan, however, could not save Harvard in the EIVA playoffs against then-No. 3 Penn State...
...while Harvard will have to deal with the departure of its seniors, it will be returning a nucleus of experienced players, including McKiernan, Fitz, and senior-to-be middle hitter John Freese...