The successful application of teamwork and technology in Operation Iraqi Freedom marks a turning point in American war fighting, the U.S. military’s senior officer said. “What we’ve done in Iraq has been dramatically different” than how the American military has fought wars since the Civil War, Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a Navy League audience at a downtown hotel.
“Where is Saddam?” Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld asked today during an appearance on Fox News Sunday. Rumsfeld and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force Gen. Richard Myers said during appearances on various news programs that there has not been a verifiable appearance by the Iraqi dictator or his sons since the war began. In that time, Rumsfeld and Myers said, coalition forces have been pushing on many fronts to liberate Iraq. Forces have control of western Iraq, and coalition conventional forces are massing in northern Iraq as special operations forces lead local forces there in much the same way they did in Afghanistan.