25 Years Later, Rumsfeld's Dream Is Alive Again In his first three months on the job, American warplanes bombed Iraq, a Navy submarine sank a Japanese fishing boat, killing nine people aboard, and 24 Americans were detained in China after their Navy spy plane collided with a Chinese fighter jet. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/18/world/18MILI.html?pagewanted=all