Remember when we were told that the troops would be greeted with flowers?

[jim3775]

And remember when we were told the violence was limited only to the "Sunni Triangle"?

And remember when we were told that Fallujah was the "root of the insurgency" and all we needed to do is clean up Fallujah and the insurgency would end?

And remember when we were told that the “elections” would be the end of the insurgency?

And remember when we were told the insurgency was dying and a failure?

And remember when we were told the insurgency was in its last throes?

I remember, the media doesn't. I hope the voters remember in 2006.

[atreides1]

1. Yes we remember

The problem is that someone forgot to tell the insurgents!!!!

[BillZBubb]

2. The sheeple will conveniently forget all this in 2006

Busholini will be "bringing troops home" just before the election. Mission Accomplished!

[BlueEyedSon]

3. Remember when we were told that Saddam had WMD's

"without a doubt"? Remember Colin Powell's BS UN presentation?

Remember when we were told that we are fighting them over there so we wont have to fight them over here?

Remember when we were told that Saddam was in cahoots with OBL?

[elehhhhna]

4. remember Bush telling Pat Robertson there'd be "no casualties"?

[Gildor Inglorion]

6. Well, be fair! There HAVEN'T been any casualties that matter...

to B*sh and his coterie of plutocrats and chickenhawks. So what if a few hundred (or few thousand) anonymous grunts get killed or maimed? B*sh and his merry band aren't in any way inconvenienced, right? And their survivors get some cash, a flag, and a footstone for the grave. What the hell more could they possibly want? Don't people realize that we're an EMPIRE now? And that you can't make a fackin omelette without breaking a few eggs? Sheesh!
:sarcasm: :grr: :grr::grr::grr::grr::grr:

[LizMoonstar]

5. A conservative friend of mine who is serving in Iraq

commented that they'd been told that, and that while the smaller children were generally quite happy to see them (they know American troops usually come bearing candy and will play ball with them), the adults were significantly less so. He didn't get as much of it, being a convoy escort, but still.

[jaxx]

7. What I heard about Iraq

In 1992, a year after the first Gulf War, I heard Dick Cheney, then secretary of defense, say that the US had been wise not to invade Baghdad and get ‘bogged down in the problems of trying to take over and govern Iraq’. I heard him say: ‘The question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is: not that damned many.’

In February 2001, I heard Colin Powell say that Saddam Hussein ‘has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbours.’

That same month, I heard that a CIA report stated: ‘We do not have any direct evidence that Iraq has used the period since Desert Fox to reconstitute its weapons of mass destruction programmes.’

In July 2001, I heard Condoleezza Rice say: ‘We are able to keep his arms from him. His military forces have not been rebuilt.’

Much Much More>> http://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n03/print/wein01_.html