March 25, 2003 - Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, asks a reporter to wait one minute so he can complete answering the previous question posed to him about the status of the American forces in Operation Iraqi Freedom.  © Mike Lynaugh
March 25, 2003 - Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld answers a reporter's question about the status of American progress in Operation Iraqi Freedom. © Mike Lynaugh
March 25, 2003 - Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld responds to a reporter's question as to whether or not he unintentionally gave the impression that this would be a very quick war. The Secretary replied, "...why would we have put in train the hundreds of thousands of people to go do this task if we thought it was going to be over in five minutes?" © Mike Lynaugh
March 25, 2003 - Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, listens to a reporter ask him a question about the status of American progress in the war in Iraq. © Mike Lynaugh
March 25, 2003 - Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Richard Myers, watches the gun camera footage from a U.S. Air Force F-117 Stealth Fighter attack on a GPS jamming station. The majority of ordinance that the United States is firing into Baghdad is GPS controlled, and if the Iraqi military is able to jam the warhead, it could cause it to go astray and hit unintended civilian areas. This strike is on what the Pentagon feels was the last GPS jamming station in Iraq. © Mike Lynaugh
March 25, 2003 - Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Richard Myers, answers a question posed to him about American loses so far in Operation Iraqi Freedom. General Myers replied, "Some of the biggest losses we've taken are due to Iraqis committing serious violations of the law of armed conflict in the Geneva Convention by dressing as civilians, by luring us into surrender situations then opening fire on our troops." © Mike Lynaugh
March 25, 2003 - Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, listens to a reporter's question during today's Pentagon briefing on the status of American and coalition members in Operation Iraqi Freedom. © Mike Lynaugh
March 25, 2003 - Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld answers a reporter's question about the rumors that Saddam Hussein has authorized his Republican Guard units to release chemical weapons on coalition forces if they get to close to Baghdad. The Secretary replied, "There has been intelligence scraps -- who knows how accurate they are -- chatter in the system that suggest that the closer that coalition forces get to Baghdad and Tikrit, the greater the likelihood and that some command and control arrangements have been put in place. But whether it will happen or not remains to be seen." © Mike Lynaugh
March 25, 2003 - Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, listens to a reporter ask him a question about the status of American progress in the war in Iraq. © Mike Lynaugh
March 25, 2003 - Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld answers a reporter's question about the rumors that Saddam Hussein has authorized his Republican Guard units to release chemical weapons on coalition forces if they get to close to Baghdad. The Secretary replied, "There has been intelligence scraps -- who knows how accurate they are -- chatter in the system that suggest that the closer that coalition forces get to Baghdad and Tikrit, the greater the likelihood and that some command and control arrangements have been put in place. But whether it will happen or not remains to be seen." © Mike Lynaugh
March 25, 2003 - Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld (left), and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Richard Myers (right), listen to a reporter ask the final question of the day's briefing on American and coalition forces in Operation Iraqi Freedom. © Mike Lynaugh
March 25, 2003 - Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, listens to a reporter ask him a question about the status of American progress in the war in Iraq. © Mike Lynaugh