[caltrop]

IIRC, Ken Adelman used the term cakewalk and was a member of Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld’s Defense Policy Board.

[mnehring]

Adelman was the one who made the cakewalk comment? LOL. He was one of those who later came out and accused President Bush of saying it would be a cakewalk and didn’t plan right. lol..

[KJC1]

I've found a column he wrote called "cakewalk", and at the bottom, here is this:

The writer was assistant to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld from 1975 to 1977, and arms control director under President Ronald Reagan.

30 years ago (25 years at the time he wrote the article) he worked under Rumsfeld, and that constitutes the Bush Admin saying Iraq would be a "cakewalk"?

[Eagle Forgotten]

IIRC, Ken Adelman used the term cakewalk and was a member of Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld’s Defense Policy Board.

It was indeed Adelman, writing in the Washington Post on February 13, 2002: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A1996-2002Feb12

He repeated the term in the same newspaper on April 10, 2003: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A1512-2003Apr9