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Iraq war: Claims and realities
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Cheney:
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"If we had to do it over again we would do exactly the same thing."
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"I know we've made tactical errors, thousands of them." —Rice, 03/2006. |
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Cheney, 08/2006:
"Progress has been steady."
zFact:"Attacks against the coalition and its Iraqi partners reached an all time high during July 2006." — US Gov. Accounting Office, 09/2006. Sources
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Bush, 05/2006.
"We have now reached a turning point in the struggle between freedom and terror."
zFact:"Iraqi casualties increase 42% in three months after this "turning point." —Dept. of Defense. 08/2006. Sources
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Bush, 08/2006.
"This is a turning point for the Iraqi citizens."
zFact:The new prime-minister-designate Maliki, with close ties to Iran, soon critized the US Army for attacking a Shiite death squad. Sources
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Cheney, 03/2006.
"Q: Do you still believe the insurgency is in its final throes? Cheney: Yes."
zFact:"Insurgency remains strong and resilient" —GAO, 9/2006. "... remains potent and viable." —DOD, 8/2006. Sources
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Cheney, 12/2005.
"The elections were the turning point. … 2005 was the turning point."
zFact:"The December 2005 elections appeared to heighten sectarian tensions,' according to the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). Sources
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Bush, 12/2005.
"2005 will be recorded as a turning point in the history of Iraq ... and the history of freedom."
zFact:Sectarian killings turned up sharply after the 2005 election. —DOD Sources
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Cheney, 5/2005.
"They're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency."
zFact: Car bombing had reached a new high, US fatalities had doubled since March and Gen. Myers had warned that insurgencies last up to nine years. Sources
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Bush, 5/2005.
"You got to keep repeating things over and over and over ... to kind of catapult the propaganda."
zFact:On 77 occasions for "Iraqis stand up/we stand down." Sources
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Rumsfeld, 2/2005.
"On January 30th in Iraq, the world witnessed ... a major turning point."
zFact:Daily Iraqi casualties increased from 50 before the election to 58 after the election, and 117 a year later. —Defense Dept. Sources
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Bush, 1/2005.
"Tomorrow the world will witness a turning point in the history of Iraq."
zFact:The election was boycotted by Sunnis, which resulted in a takeover by sectarian Shiites. Sources
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Cheney, 6/2004.
"Two days ahead of schedule, the world witnessed the arrival of a free and sovereign Iraq."
zFact:It was early and in secret, because they were afraid of the insurgents.Sources
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Bush, 6/2004.
"A turning point will come two weeks from today."
zFact:"sovereignty" changed little, and did not slow escalating Iraqi casualties. Sources
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Bush, 11/2003.
"We've reached another great turning point."
zFact:The insurgents were rapidly gaining strength, with more US fatalities this month than in any previous month.Sources
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Rumsfeld, 7/2003.
"I don't do quagmires."
zFact:Troop levels fell to 115,000 in Feb. 2004, and are up to 147,000 in Sept. 2006.Sources
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Bush, 5/2005.
"Good news to the men and women who fought ... their mission is complete."
zFact:Fact.Sources
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Wolfowitz, 3/2003.
Iraq: "can really finance its own reconstruction."
zFact:It has cost the US over $325 billion.Sources
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Cheney, 3/2003.
"I think it'll go relatively quickly, …Weeks rather than months."
zFact:It will be 190 weeks, on Nov. 7, 2006.Sources
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Adelman, 2/2002.
"Liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk."
zFact:Fact.Sources
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Really erroneous to say the Iraqis are sliding into civil war.
Aug. 6, 2006 Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State
But it would be really erroneous to say that the Iraqis are somehow making a choice for civil war, or I think even sliding into civil war.
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Iraqi forces are taking control
Jan. 6, 2006 Dick Cheney
Gradually, Iraqi forces are taking control of more and more territory, and as they undertake further missions on their own, confidence is growing within the country, and more intelligence tips are coming in from the Iraqi people themselves.
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The last throes of the insurgency
Jun. 29, 2005 Dick Cheney
I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.
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Absolutely confident ... democracy in Middle East ... the foundation for Peace
Jun. 29, 2005 George W. Bush
THE PRESIDENT: I am absolutely confident that we made the right decision. And not only that, I'm absolutely confident that the actions we took in Iraq are influencing reformers and freedom lovers in the greater Middle East. And I believe that you're going to see the rise of democracy in many countries in the broader Middle East, which will lay the foundation for peace.
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Some feel like they can attack us -- bring 'em on.
Jul. 02, 2003 George W. Bush
There are some who feel like -- that the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is, bring 'em on.
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Rumsfeld: I don't do quagmires.
Jul. 24, 2003 Donald H. Rumsfeld
Q: "Quagmire"? Rumsfeld: No. That's someone else's business. Quagmire is -- I don't do quagmires.
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Bush: Some feel like they can attack us ... bring 'em on!
Jul. 2, 2003 George W. Bush
There are some who feel like -- that the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is, bring 'em on! We've got the force necessary to deal with the security situation.
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Bush: Mission Accomplished
May 1, 2003 George W. Bush
"Thank you all very much. Admiral Kelly, Captain Card, officers and sailors of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln, my fellow Americans: Major combat operations in Iraq have ended." Under the banner "Mission Accomplished." Presidential Documents
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Rumsfeld: WMD? We know where they are. Baghdad; east, west, south & north.
Mar. 30, 2003 Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense
"We know where they are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat."
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Wolfowitz: A country that can really finance its own reconstruction
Mar. 27, 2003 Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Defense Secretary
There’s a lot of money to pay for this that doesn’t have to be U.S. taxpayer money, and it starts with the assets of the Iraqi people…and on a rough recollection, the oil revenues of that country could bring between $50 and $100 billion over the course of the next two or three years…We’re dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon.”
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Perle: days or weeks -- this will be a short war
Mar. 25, 2003 Richard Perle, Chairman of the Defense Policy Board
I can't tell you exactly how many days or how many weeks. But by
historical standards, this will be a short war.
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Cheney: In weeks rather than months
Mar. 16, 2003 Dick Cheney
"My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. . . . I think it will go relatively quickly, . . . [in] weeks rather than months." --on NBC's Meet the Press
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Rumsfeld: I Doubt Six Months
Feb. 7, 2003 Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense
"It is unknowable how long that conflict will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months." —to U.S. troops in Aviano, Italy:
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Rumsfeld: Under $50 billion
Jan. 10, 2003 Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense
“Well, the Office of Management and Budget, has come up come up with a number that's something under $50 billion for the cost. How much of that would be the U.S. burden, and how much would be other countries, is an open question.”
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Rumsfeld: Five days or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last longer
Nov. 15, 2002 Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense
"The idea that it's going to be a long, long, long battle of some kind I think is belied by the fact of what happened in 1990," he said on an Infinity Radio call-in program. "Five days or five weeks or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last any longer than that."
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Adelman: Liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk
Feb. 13, 2002 Ken Adelman
"I believe demolishing Hussein's military power and liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk.” - Washington Post
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Ledeen: Just wage total war -- Children will sing great songs about us
Oct. 29, 2001 Michael Leeden, American Enterprise Institute, research fellow
"If we just let our own vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely and we don't try to be clever and piece together clever diplomatic solutions to this thing, but just wage a total war against these tyrants, I think we will do very well and our children will sing great songs about us years from now."
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Details the preventable blunders and missed opportunities, from Bush's giving the Pentagon the lead managing postwar Iraq to our inability to work with Iraqi leaders such as Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. Diamond expresses admiration for US Administrator L. Paul Bremer, who sincerely wanted to bring democracy to Iraq, but was wholly unprepared and unrealistic, resulting in "one of the major overseas blunders in U.S. history."
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