Winning Hearts and Minds the Rumsfeld Way See how it works? We're the good guys, and therefore anything we do is always justified, even if it's exactly what the terrorists do. U.S. forces in Iraq, in two instances described in military documents, took custody of the wives of men believed to be insurgents in an apparent attempt to pressure the suspects into giving themselves up. Both incidents occurred in 2004. In one, members of a shadowy military task force seized a mother who had three young children, still nursing the youngest, "in order to leverage" her husband's surrender, according to an account by a civilian Defense Intelligence Agency intelligence officer. Read It: