obiex got it.
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Originally Posted by Wolfowitz
March 11, in a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars: "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."
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Originally Posted by cheney
my belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. ... I think it will go relatively quickly, ... (in) weeks rather than months." He predicted that regular Iraqi soldiers would not "put up such a struggle" and that even "significant elements of the Republican Guard ... are likely to step aside.
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/i...now-usat_x.htm
Aside from the majors...a whole lot of adminstration hangers on, and "indepentant" advisors spewed even more "easy war" rhetoric for which Bush can have plausible deniability.
Point is...this hasn't been an easy war. It wasn't sold to the people as a "multi-year low level war with continuing insurgency." It wasn't hailed to Americans as their chance to involve themselves in "continung ethnic and religious strife, including but not limited to minor rebellions by charismatic leaders." Nor were we told it would be "the beginning of a long commitment of US troops, not paid for by oil revenues, but by large and expanding sums of additional allocations to the pentagon of our tax dollars."
Nobody would have supported that...