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Secretary Rumsfeld answers a reporter's question about the intensity of air strikes on Baghdad.
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld answers a reporter's question about the intensity of the air strikes on Baghdad during a Pentagon press briefing on March 21, 2003. Rumsfeld and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Richard B. Myers, U.S. Air Force, updated reporters on the progress of Operation Iraqi Freedom.