You have to be aware of all the nonsense perpetrated upon the American people. So you've got a guy who is saying now it's going to take forever, and trying to sell Americans on occupying Iraq forever.

Mar. 16, 2003 Dick Cheney "My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. . . . I think it will go relatively quickly, . . . [in] weeks rather than months." --on NBC's Meet the Press

Feb. 7, 2003 Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense
"It is unknowable how long that conflict will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months." —to U.S. troops in Aviano, Italy

Jan. 10, 2003 Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense “Well, the Office of Management and Budget, has come up come up with a number that's something under $50 billion for the cost. How much of that would be the U.S. burden, and how much would be other countries, is an open question.”

Nov. 15, 2002 Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense "The idea that it's going to be a long, long, long battle of some kind I think is belied by the fact of what happened in 1990," he said on an Infinity Radio call-in program. "Five days or five weeks or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last any longer than that."

Even True Believers should want to save our troops from more senseless killing. Both as perps and victims. Anyone with a shred of patriotism wouldn't want to waste our folks.

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