It'll be a "Cake Walk"

[bushvoodoo]

I must have heard this 100 times from Bush admin officials and other Right Wing pundits leading up to the war in Iraq. Wish someone would put together a reel of all those statements and put into a commercial.

[Sweetpea]

1. welcome to DU

:hi:

[fdr_hst_fan]

2. It would probably be

over 30 minutes long; TV's already a waste as it is, without that!

[wryter2000]

3. I'd sure use it

Welcome. :hi:

[amber dog democrat]

4. Don't forget the flowers tossed adoringly in our path

by a grateful Iraqi citizenry. Oh, and its going to pay for itsself too, while we are at it.

[porphyrian]

5. George made a bundt cake before he understood what they meant. -n/t

[Jacobin]

6. Oh and "Our children will sing great songs praising us"

Was that Perle or Wolfowitz?

I can't remember. I confuse them. In fact, they are confusing to me.

[Delano]

7. It was.

Even liberal pundits thought so. Iraq put up almost no fight against our onslaught, and for some reason never bothered to use the massive stockpiles of WMD they had lying around(sarcasm).

The disagreement was what would happen after. The 'pugs said there would be the flowers, then instant democracy that would magically spread to all the middle east.

The real libs (the ones who didn't jump on the Bush war wagon) were saying that it would throw the country into turmoil and without the strongman Saddam, the ethnic and religious divisions would tear the country apart. I don't remember either side predicting the tenacity and breadth of the resistance of all parties to US occupation, but I don't find it surprising in light of what happened when we tried to force our will onto Vietnam.

Invasion=cakewalk

Occupation=nightmare

That's the way it usually goes, but these people never learn...

[yellerpup]

9. When Major Resistance Started on 4/9/04

my landlord expressed shock and dismay that "they (Iraqui's) were turning on us after we went there to 'help them:". I reminded him that NO ONE in Iraq asked us for help. Chalabi, maybe (help me be president and we'll all be rich) but he wasn't in Iraq.

[Mandate My Ass]

8. Like all classic swindles

Bushco used all the old tricks to sell his phony war-for-profit to the public. He played to people's fears, the sense of urgency (Condi saying if we don't invade now we'll be sitting in the middle of a mushroom cloud) reassuring everyone this would be a low-risk enterprise and the payoff would be huge.

He played us for patsies but some of us were onto him, namely the millions who protested in the streets.

[wadestock]

10. It was a mince meat pie actually.....

A complete slaughter of a 2010 army against a 1970 army....with anyone standing close to any anything which resembled a piece of army equipment obliterated.

Just as in Desert Storm...we'll hear the truth about who was killed in friendly fire about 5 years from now...but you'll see any US soldier killed by an Iraqi during this blitzkrieg was almost complete luck.

Doesn't that make this whole thing that much more despicable?

I am more perplexed about why there hasn't been more outrage about the fact that this was a one sided slaughter....and why because of this huge advantage on our part it was never required that we make it an all out WAR in the first place. He was surrounded with no air force and they were sitting ducks. A number of scenarios were possible which included putting limited military pressure from outside in to get the Iraqis to do something from within.

Actually, after the oil fields were seized in the very early stages of the battle....the entire thing was over for all intents and purposes.

Bush had to have an all out war for the very intended purpose to make it a ONE WAY road of occupation....with no one questioning anything other than complete annihilation of their army....which as you know has thus mandated the permanent military presence in the country for endless years to come.

The lives that have been lost to date and those in the future are essentially for the purpose of putting a permanent military base in the region from which we can exert continued influence within the region....not to fight anyone or anything which was a threat to the US.

From that point of view, it is the equivalent of a "high risk" job resulting in unfortunate deaths to install something analogous to the Alaskan pipeline in a dangerous environment.

[cosmokramer]

11. General Clark just smacked-down the person who coined 'cakewalk'...

...on CNN Special Reports Sunday night. He pointed to the neo-con and told him "you said this would be a 'cakewalk', and you were wrong'.

[Veggie Meathead]

12. The guy who used the term was Ken Adelman, another guy who

found "other priorities" during Vietnam.This War on Iraq came about because of the bloodlust of Cheney, Rumsfeld and Bush, Jr. which remained unquenched even after the massacre on the Highway of Death
during the First Gulf War.

[cosmokramer]

14. Thank you! I forgot his name...of course,

I try not to remember the names of people who make me want to seek political asylum in another country...

:evilgrin:

[TexasSissy]

13. Yeah. That'd be great.