In a July 6, 2006, interview with journalist Bob Woodward, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said: ” ‘I thought we did it just fine in Afghanistan…and I would hope that we’ll be able to do the same thing in Iraq–that is, bring together a representative group of Iraqis and find Iraq’s Hamid Karzai [post-Taliban leader of Afghanistan].’ ”
– Bob Woodward, State of Denial, Page 131