Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld answers a reporter's question during a Pentagon press conference on April 3, 2003. Rumsfeld told reporters how coalition forces have taken key bridges over the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers easing the approach to Baghdad. Rumsfeld and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Richard B. Myers, U.S. Air Force, provided reporters with an update on Operation Iraqi Freedom, which is the multinational coalition effort to liberate the Iraqi people, eliminate Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and end the regime of Saddam Hussein.