re: #347 Talking Point Detective

OK - I found this.

This is the incompetence that some folks feel compelled to make excuses for:

“You’re going to find Iraqis out cheering American troops.”
— Paul Wolfowitz, February 23, 2003
“There is no question but that they would be welcomed.”
— Donald Rumsfeld, February 20, 2003
“My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.”
— Dick Cheney, March 16, 2003
“Given the chance to throw off a brutal dictator like Saddam Hussein, people will rejoice.”
— Ari Fleischer, March 21, 2003
Source: The War in Quotes, by G.B. Trudeau, p. 47 Oct 1, 2008
2005: Iraq is in the last throes of the insurgency

“I think we’re on the brink of success.”
_Gen. Richard B. Myers, Armed Services Committee, May 21, 2004
“I think they’re in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.”
— Dick Cheney, July 20, 2005
“My fellow citizens: Not only can we win the war in Iraq, we are winning the war in Iraq.”
—George W. Bush, August 17, 2005
“We’re on the road to victory here.”
— George W. Bush, November 19. 2005
Source: The War in Quotes, by G.B. Trudeau, p. 78-79 Oct 1, 2008
2003: Iraq occupation will last weeks rather than months

“I can’t tell you if the use of force in Iraq today would last five days, or five weeks, or five months, but it certainly isn’t going to last any longer than that.”
—Donald Rumsfeld, November 14, 2002
“It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months”
— Donald Rumsfeld, February 7, 2003
“I think it will go relatively quickly. Weeks rather than months.”
— Dick Cheney, March 16, 2003
“No one is talking about occupying Iraq for five to ten years.”
— Richard Perle, March 9, 2003
“It could be that, absolutely.”
— George W. Bush, when asked of the United States would have troops in Iraq for the next ten years, January 11, 2008