US orders 4-6 day “operational pause”
“U.S. commanders have ordered a pause of between four to six days in a northwards push toward Baghdad because of supply shortages and stiff Iraqi resistance, U.S. military officers said on Saturday.” (Reuters)
Time to fess up, Rumsfeld. The war is not going according to plan. Scrapping the Powell doctrine of overwhelming force was the first mistake. Naively thinking Iraqis were just Americans who hadn’t realized it yet was the second.