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Prairie Gates

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13. "It is unknowable how long that conflict will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months."

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Mar 1, 2026, 11:51 PM

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"It is unknowable how long that conflict will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months."

- Donald Rumsfeld, February 2003

(US combat troops would be more or less withdrawn from Iraq in 2011, a full eight years later).

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