"What you'd like to do is have it be a short, short conflict. . . . Iraq is much weaker than they were back in the '90s," -Air Force Gen. Richard Myers March 4th 2003
"The Iraqi people understand what this crisis is about. Like the people of France in the 1940s, they view us as their hoped-for liberator."- Wolfowitz march 11th 2003
"I think things have gotten so bad inside Iraq, from the standpoint of the Iraqi people, my belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. . . . I think it will go relatively quickly, . . . weeks rather than months." - Cheney March 16th 2003
it is interesting how the administration's tone changed once we were committed to the war - after the public had been sold the false bill of goods...
"Nobody should have any illusions that this is going to be a quick and easy victory. This is going to be a tough war, a tough slog yet, and no responsible official I know has ever said anything different once this war has started."- Myers March 30th
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Ahhh yes, the good old days "It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months."- Rumsfeld
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- Iraq, $5,000 Per Second?
- "So, I have a wager for you. If no significant amounts* of WMD show up before the next election, I?ll vote for a Democrat. " - ROBVG
- re: Cheney doesn’t care about the American public’s views on the war
- And for what? (n/t)
- 4000 Americans dead, well over 30,000 Americans wounded, a total cost of ~3000 billion dollars....
- 4,000
- re: 4000 Americans dead, well over 30,000 Americans wounded, a total cost of ~3000 billion dollars....
- Your words
- Kinda convienient that we dont keep track of civilian deaths, isn't it
- Civilian deaths
- BTW, For those playing at home that makes 50,000 iraqi civillians dead just in the last 2 years as aknowledged by TB...
- "Coalition forces were responsible for about 600 of about 26,000 civilians killed. In 2007, Coalition forces accounted for about 1,200 of 24,000 civilians killed."
- Shall we also consider the millions of displaced citizens?
- Civilian deaths
- And the $3 trillion? Still crap. (n/t)
- ugh, typo