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Mon 03 Mar 2003Rumsfeld put in firing line as Iraqis refuse to play ball
The fact that Bob Schieffer would recall the comment by Mussolini's aide, Count Ciano, that "victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan" in a CBS interview with US Gen Richard Myers yesterday indicates just how big a mood swing there has been in the United States after 11 days of war in Iraq.
As predictions of a speedy of liberation of repressed Iraqis have given way to warnings of more bloody battles ahead, the "orphan" to whom the Pentagon planners are pointing is Gen Tommy Franks, commander of all US forces in the Gulf Region.
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