A day after the U.S. troops opened fire, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has flown into Iraq and pronounced Iraqis free. Over coffee and biscuits in a Basra airport lounge, Rumsfeld said, “What is significant is that large numbers of human beings, intelligent, energetic, have been liberated.” Later, Rumsfeld flew to Baghdad and met top U.S. commanders at a lake palace of Saddam Hussein. British Commander Robin Brims told Rumsfeld it’s important to restore services to the Iraqi capital. He said, “I assume the forces of badness will try to use infrastructure as a means of discrediting what we are trying to do to make things better here.”