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IcyPeas

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11. Reminds me of when Donald Rumsfeld said:

Reply to AverageOldGuy (Reply #9)

Fri Feb 27, 2026, 08:30 PM

Friday

(This article is from February 2003)

U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld began a trip to Europe Friday by telling troops any conflict with Iraq would probably be over within months.

He made the prediction during an address to hundreds of U.S. military personnel inside a hangar at an air base near the northern Italian town of Aviano.

"It is not knowable how long that conflict would last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months," Rumsfeld told them.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/war-likely-wouldn-t-last-long-rumsfeld-1.366648

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