5/28/2003

In an interview conducted by Major Craig Borchelt of the Operation Iraqi Freedom Study Group on May 28, 2003: “Major Ray Eiriz of CENTCOM [Central Command], who had worked on plans to cope with up to 1.1 million refugees, acknowledged that postwar planning did not receive much attention at [Central Command leader General Tommy] Franks’s command.”

 – Michael R. Gordon and Bernard E. Trainor, Cobra II, Page 159