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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rumsfeld orders plans for the "Liberation of ____________" and postwar stability operations.
(a) Saddam
(b) Kabul
(c) Mosul
(d) Baghdad

2. What is NOT one of the things that Bush authorizes the CIA to do within Iraq?
(a) Disrupt financial operations
(b) Coordinate intelligence gathering
(c) Find Saddam's family
(d) Conduct sabotage

3. Franks briefs the Joint Chiefs of Staff whose turf wars in ___________ he has criticized.
(a) Iran
(b) Afghanistan
(c) North Korea
(d) Iraq

4. Saddam in 1972 signed a ___________ with the Soviets to help make Iraq a Cold War pawn.
(a) War Promise
(b) Terrorist Prohibition
(c) War Plan
(d) Friendship Treaty

5. Michael V. Hayden is Director of the _____________, heading a staff of 32,000 people.
(a) Cover Military Operations Group
(b) National Security Agency
(c) Federal Bureau of Investigation
(d) Central Intelligence Agency

Short Answer Questions

1. Success in Afghanistan increases CIA Director ______________ standing with President Bush.

2. Bush wants Congress to pass a resolution supporting ______________ against Saddam.

3. Bush and Rumsfeld decide to go to the ____________ to ask for honest opinions about Iraq.

4. Bush on September 19 tells 11 congressmen that al Qaeda is being hunted down successfully, so Saddam and his ________ are the biggest threat.

5. Clinton officials brief the incoming Bush staff on enforcing ___________ zones in Iraq.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Cheney sure will happen if they demand Saddam submit full WMD accounting?

2. What do the Marines worry about in relation to conflict in Iraq?

3. What does Rumsfeld suspect which leads him to suggest using this information as a way, an opportunity, to attack Iraq?

4. What does Bush impress upon Gerson when he is writing a new speech for the President?

5. Why are few Iraqis willing to help the United States with spying efforts, even though the monetary compensation is so high?

6. What does Powell recall which he is beginning to believe he is seeing within this war planning process?

7. What does the Franks "Generated Start Plan" mean to the planning process of the war?

8. What is the false story that Bush will use in order to sell his war plans to the government, the people, and the world?

9. What does Saul tell Cheney about Saddam which proves to be a sobering fact for the Vice President?

10. When he is at his Crawford Ranch, what does Bush read that inspires him in his presidency?

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