Keeping with our observance of the beginning of 7 years of the war in Iraq, we bring you yet more quotes that steadily guided this Glorious War."As you know, you go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time." —Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, responding to a U.S. soldier serving in Iraq who asked him why troops had to dig through scrap metal to armor vehicles, Dec. 8, 2004-- In other words, it's all Clinton's fault.
"F**k Saddam, we're taking him out." –President Bush to three U.S. Senators in March 2002, a full year before the Iraq invasion-- And we sure smoked him out.
"We found the weapons of mass destruction." –President Bush, in an interview with Polish television, May 29, 2003-- But I thought we invaded to spread democracy?
"It's a slam-dunk case!" –CIA Director George Tenet, discussing WMD and the case for war during a meeting in the Oval Office, Dec. 21, 2002-- He was a Clinton holdover, so of course it's all Clinton's fault.
The all time best:
"CHENEY: My own judgment based on my time as secretary of Defense, and having operated in this area in the past, I'm confident that our troops will be successful, and I think it'll go relatively quickly, but we can't... // SCHIEFFER: Weeks? // CHENEY: ...we can't count on that. // SCHIEFFER: Months? // CHENEY: Weeks rather than months" December 2002-- This is week 366!!
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