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Rumsfeld Says Prepare for a Long, Bloody Conflict
Tuesday, September 25, 2001 (6:26 PM ET)
By Robert Burns / The Associated Press

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Washington -- AP
The Pentagon called nearly 2,000 more reservists to active duty Tuesday as Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said the new war on terrorism will be long and not start with a massive offensive.

“There is not going to be a D-Day, as such, and I'm sure there will not be a signing ceremony on the Missouri, as such,” he told a Pentagon news conference. He referred to the final allied push in Europe in June 1944 and the signing of surrender papers aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay in 1945.

“This is not something that begins with a significant event or ends with a significant event,” he said. “It is something that will involve a sustained effort over a good period of time.”

Rumsfeld predicted the campaign would last “not five minutes or five months,” but years.
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