Narrow and Limited Military action, day 8,130

Speaking from his grave, the late Donald Rumsfeld solemnly marked the 8,130^th day since the beginning of the narrow and limited action to remove Weapons of Mass Destruction from Iraq.

“We said all along that Iraq should not have a nuclear weapon since that would destabilise the region,” said the former Secretary of Defense.  “That was very much a known, known.”

As tensions once again lead to military action in the region figures from beyond the grave, or indeed the fiery pits in which they are currently residing, are surfacing to commemorate the successful way in which air strikes have always ended all such conflicts exactly on the neat, telegenic political terms that they are ordered on.

“The initial spectacular military success proved decisive two decades ago.  We barely had to deploy a tiny force of only about half-a-million soldiers,” he said. “It led to a mere few hundred thousands of people killed, millions injured and displaced.”

Rumsfeld went on to emphasise that without the limited action in Iraq then, the region now, in 2025, would be filled with warring factions, not just in Iraq, but conflict would have spilled across borders, likely happening in all areas of the middle east. Such as Israel and Iran.

Also speaking was Colin Powell who emphasised the role that intelligence gathering plays in such actions.

“We were clear that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, which we have just entered our third decade of trying to find,  “ he said. “This was despite all the information from our own and allied intelligence gathering saying Iraq did not have any such capability. But you can’t listen to such reports from so-called experts as they don’t have prime time shows on Fox.”

The Vice President of the United States, J.D. Vance was pleased to emphasise that he is very much still involved, and who, despite his use of eye make-up is very much alive. “Israel has been claiming for just as long that Iran is on the brink of obtaining a nuclear weapon.  So, we must act now,” he said.  “And those bunker busting bombs are not cheap, have the Iranian’s even said thank you?”