This thread topic is amazing in just how perfectly it demonstrates the chasm that seperates those who support this war and those who do not. It seems fairly clear that there will
never be a middle ground.
And then we get into semantics:
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Originally Posted by Mojo_PeiPei
They under estimated the insurgency no doubt. Regardless I don't think they said it was going to be easy or immediate.
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Originally Posted by irateplatypus
i can't find them, do you mind providing quotes that clearly identify any of those 3 saying it was going to be easy and immediate?
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MR. RUSSERT: If your analysis is not correct, and we’re not treated as liberators, but as conquerors, and the Iraqis begin to resist, particularly in Baghdad, do you think the American people are prepared for a long, costly, and bloody battle with significant American casualties?
VICE PRES. CHENEY: Well, I don’t think it’s likely to unfold that way, Tim, because I really do believe that we will be greeted as liberators.
"Like the people of France in the 1940s, the Iraqi people view us as their hoped for liberators."
Paul Wolfowitz, Assistant Secretary of Defense
And here's Michelle Malkin talking about how easy the whole Iraq War was, on the day of the staged Saddam statue removal:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/ar...TICLE_ID=32002
And more quotes from administration officials about how easy and quick the war would be:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp...nguage=printer
Just up to the actual moment that war was launched - at which point Bush hedges his bets and claims it "might" be long and costly.
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Vice President Cheney, for example, predicted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's troops would "step aside" and that the conflict would be "weeks rather than months," a phrase repeated by other top officials. Others in advisory roles in the administration predicted Iraqi soldiers would "throw in the towel"
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