Sen. Kay Bailey Huthinson says we're expecting too much too soon in Iraq.

[bulloney]

On ABC's "This Week" the Texas senator defends the surge in Iraq, but complains that Americans are expecting too much too soon.

So, is that the latest recycled spin they're gonna put on this war as it continues to go on and on with no end in sight?

[ladjf]

1. Her remark is either incredibly naive, stupid or disingenuous.

[Lasher]

6. It's not an either/or scenario.

We expect too much too soon? Where could we have gotten such foolish notions?

Ken Adelman, 2/2002. "Liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk."

Cheney, 3/2003. "I think it'll go relatively quickly, …Weeks rather than months."

Wolfowitz, 3/2003. Iraq: "can really finance its own reconstruction."

Andrew Natsios, 4/2003. "The American part of this will be $1.7 billion. We have no plans for any further-on funding for this."

Bush, 5/2003. (under 'Mission Accomplished' banner aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln) Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed."

Rumsfeld, 7/2003. "I don't do quagmires."

Pearle, 9/2003. "And a year from now, I'll be very surprised if there is not some grand square in Baghdad that is named after President Bush."

Bush, 11/2003. "We've reached another great turning point."

Bush, 6/2004. "A turning point will come two weeks from today."

Cheney, 6/2004. "Two days ahead of schedule, the world witnessed the arrival of a free and sovereign Iraq."

Bush, 1/2005. "Tomorrow the world will witness a turning point in the history of Iraq."

Rumsfeld, 2/2005. "On January 30th in Iraq, the world witnessed ... a major turning point."

Cheney, 5/2005. "They're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency."

Bush, 5/2005. "Good news to the men and women who fought ... their mission is complete."

Bush, 12/2005. "2005 will be recorded as a turning point in the history of Iraq ... and the history of freedom."

Cheney, 12/2005. "The elections were the turning point. … 2005 was the turning point."

Cheney, 03/2006. "Q: Do you still believe the insurgency is in its final throes? Cheney: Yes."

Bush, 05/2006. "We have now reached a turning point in the struggle between freedom and terror."

Bush, 08/2006. "This is a turning point for the Iraqi citizens."

http://zfacts.com/p/87.html

[Submariner]

2. Bush's war is lost. Bush lost it long ago. When the WMD objective

evaporated, everything after that was spin when the cheering Iraqi crowds throwing flowers did not show up as Bush expected. The Bush Junta are just stalling so they hand this diaper load off to Obama so they can never admit the war was lost on the Bush watch. Many will die in Iraq for the GWB legacy.

I wish I believed in hell, because I would like to know GWB would eventually burn in it.

[LiberalEsto]

3. OK, let's send her there

She might as well put her body where her mouth is.

[tbyg52]

4. Don't stop there!

Let's send *all* of them!

[davidinalameda]

5. too soon?

how long before we see results?

how long before the Iraqi government can control its country?

[tanyev]

7. Maybe Kay will get really lucky and be able to send her 7 year old son and daughter

over there in a few more years to help fight the good fight.