"WASHINGTON(AP) - Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, said Thursday that conditions in Iraq may get harder before they get easier and will require "an enormous commitment" over time by the United States."

Cheney, 03/2006. "Q: Do you still believe the insurgency is in its final throes? Cheney: Yes."
Cheney, 12/2005. "The elections were the turning point. … 2005 was the turning point."
Cheney, 5/2005. "They're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency."
Bush, 5/2005. "You got to keep repeating things over and over and over ... to kind of catapult the propaganda."
(On 77 occasions for "Iraqis stand up/we stand down.""
Bush, 5/2005. "Good news to the men and women who fought ... their mission is complete."
Bush, 1/2005. "Tomorrow the world will witness a turning point in the history of Iraq."
Rumsfeld, 7/2003. "I don't do quagmires."

Et cetera and so on.

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