The best eight word summary of the Iraq war plan

The US [National Security Archive](http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/index.html) (not an official body)

has just obtained the [PowerPoint briefing on the Iraq war plan from 2002](http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB214/index.htm).

There’s lots of great stuff in this, but I was particularly struck by one sentence from the

second slide in the pack

>Thinking “outside the box”, but “inside a compartment”

When they come to write the book on this war, that should be the title…


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