CBS News - Iraq War - 2003-03-20 - 11:22 a.m. (E)
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[0:00] one would take uh opportunities that
[0:03] that present themselves and and
[0:05] certainly there's no war a war plan is
[0:08] something that is is uh is a plan that's
[0:11] developed before things start and the
[0:14] minute things start one has to U take
[0:18] account of the realities that you find
[0:20] in the world and and that's that is what
[0:22] was done last evening that is what will
[0:24] be done today and tomorrow and the next
[0:26] day and to not do that would be a
[0:28] terrible mistake having Intel AG IES and
[0:31] uh armed forces that are flexible is key
[0:34] to Victory and
[0:36] uh that's what you
[0:39] saw I I really wasn't kidding when I
[0:41] said I think that that'll be the last
[0:42] question let me just make a comment I I
[0:44] did not answer a question as was as
[0:47] fully as I might have uh about do we
[0:49] have evidence that it's working
[0:53] um I often try to put myself in other
[0:57] people's shoes and ask myself in in in
[1:01] this case for example an Iraqi citizen
[1:04] or Iraqi Army uh Soldier or an Iraqi
[1:08] officer uh or even a special Republican
[1:10] guard official uh or even people closer
[1:14] to Saddam Hussein what they have to be
[1:18] seeing uh is is a good deal of evidence
[1:22] that the Iraqi people want to be
[1:24] liberated we we see a great deal of
[1:27] evidence of that it's a it's a natural
[1:30] human tendency for people that have been
[1:32] brutally
[1:33] repressed it it it manifests itself in a
[1:36] in a host of ways uh we see evidence of
[1:40] um military personnel some have already
[1:43] uh surrendered in Kuwait uh we have are
[1:46] in communication with still more um
[1:49] people who are uh officials of the
[1:53] military at various
[1:54] levels uh the regular a