To which Rumsfeld replied: "It really doesn't." One reporter quoted the Pentagon's own definition of guerrilla war - "military and paramilitary operations conducted in enemy-held or hostile territory by irregular ground indigenous forces" - and told Rumsfeld, "Seems to fit a lot of what's going on in Iraq." "It makes it like five different things going on are functioning more like terrorists." "That doesn't make it anything like a guerrilla war or an organized resistance," Rumsfeld said. forces - which he identified as looters, criminals, remnants of Saddam Hussein's government, foreign terrorists and Iranian-backed Shiites - "are all slightly different in why they are there and what they are doing." Rumsfeld said the five groups opposing U.S. troops in Iraq are engaged in a guerrilla war or bogged down in a Vietnam-like "quagmire." Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon, Rumsfeld dismissed suggestions that 146,000 U.S.
Rumsfeld said yesterday the military is fighting a war against five disparate groups with their own agendas and not a guerrilla conflict waged by an organized insurgency. forces swept central Iraq in search of armed opponents, Defense Secretary Donald H.
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