Maybe it was the constant barrage of statements like these?.... Cheney: I'm confident that our troops will be successful, and I think it'll go relatively quickly, but we can't... Q: Weeks? Cheney: ...we can't count on that. Q: Months? Cheney: Weeks rather than months. Cheney, March 16, 2003:
"And a year from now, I'll be very surprised if there is not some grand square in Baghdad that is named after President Bush. There is no doubt that, with the exception of a very small number of people close to a vicious regime, the people of Iraq have been liberated and they understand that they've been liberated. And it is getting easier every day for Iraqis to express that sense of liberation." - Perle, 9/22/03 "Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed." ÂPresident Bush, standing under a "Mission Accomplished" banner on the USS Lincoln aircraft carrier, May 2, 2003 "My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators." ÂVice President Dick Cheney, "Meet the Press," March 16, 2003 "Oh, no, we're not going to have any casualties." ÂPresident Bush, discussing the Iraq war with Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson, after Robertson told him he should prepare the American people for casualties "It's hard to conceive that it would take more forces to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq than it would take to conduct the war itself and to secure the surrender of Saddam's security forces and his army. Hard to imagine." ÂDeputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, testifying before the House Budget Committee prior to the Iraq war, Feb. 27, 2003 "We are dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction and relatively soon." -Wolfowitz, 3/27/03 "[T]he American part of this will be $1.7 billion. We have no plans for any further-on funding for this." -Andrew Natsios, Nightline, 4/23/03 "I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency." -Cheney, Larry King Live, 6/20/05 On 5/22/07, C. Hatton Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The story you rarely hear in the media is the compassion that individual > > > soldiers on the ground have for the local population who are suffering the > > > effects of the struggle. > > > > The American people were told that we had to go to war with Iraq > > because of WMD, that we'd be there for 2 years max, and that Iraq > > would pay for it. All of those things were false as many warned at > > the time. > > Where in the HELL were the American people told that this would take 2 years? > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 and Flex 2 Build sales & marketing dashboard RIAâs for your business. Upgrade now http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2?sdid=RVJT Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:235306 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
