"Six day, six weeks, I doubt six months". Iraq War Quote Thread.

[Gold Metal Flake]

"Looting is transition to freedom"

"The images you are seeing on television you are seeing over, and over, and it’s the same picture of some person walking out of some building with a vase," scoffed Rumsfeld, "and you think, ‘My goodness, were there that many vases? Is it possible that there were that many vases in the whole country?"


-Donald Rumsfeld

OK, DU, post your "favorite" Iraq War quotes. And remember.

[muntrv]

1. "We'll be greeted as liberators." Dick Cheney.

[Lost4words]

2. the war will pay for itself!

wolfoputz

[smokey nj]

3. "We don't want the smoking gun to come in the form of a mushroom cloud."

-Pretty much everybody in the Bush administration.

[LiberalAndProud]

4. flowers

[smokey nj]

5. "Those weapons of mass destruction have to be somewhere!"

-Chimpy McFlightsuit

[Fumesucker]

6. " A Cakewalk".. -Ken Adelman

[Uzybone]

7. you go to war with the Army you have. not the Army you might want or wish to have

[jtrockville]

47. Followed by: It's a matter of production and capability of doing it.

Follow-up:

"We've been telling the Pentagon for months that we have the capacity to double our production."
- Matt Salmon, a consultant for ArmorWorks of Tempe

[TayTay]

8. Meet the Press with Darth Cheney, March 16, 2003

MR. RUSSERT: Every analysis said this war itself would cost about $80 billion, recovery of Baghdad, perhaps of Iraq, about $10 billion per year. We should expect as American citizens that this would cost at least $100 billion for a two-year involvement.

VICE PRES. CHENEY: I can’t say that, Tim. There are estimates out there. It’s important, though, to recognize that we’ve got a different set of circumstances than we’ve had in Afghanistan. In Afghanistan you’ve got a nation without significant resources. In Iraq you’ve got a nation that’s got the second-largest oil reserves in the world, second only to Saudi Arabia. It will generate billions of dollars a year in cash flow if they get back to their production of roughly three million barrels of oil a day, in the relatively near future. And that flow of resources, obviously, belongs to the Iraqi people, needs to be put to use by the Iraqi people for the Iraqi people and that will be one of our major objectives.

But the point is this is not a nation without resources, and when it comes time to rebuild and to make the kinds of investments that are going to be required to give them a shot at achieving a truly representative government, a successful government, a government that can defend itself and protect its territorial integrity and look to the interests of its people, Iraq starts with significant advantages. It’s got a well- trained middle class, a highly literate work force, a high degree of technical sophistication. This is a country that I think, but for the rule of Saddam Hussein and his brutality and his diversion of the nation’s resources and his pursuit of weapons of mass destruction, can be one of the leading, perhaps the leading state in that part of the world in terms of developing a modern state and the kind of lifestyle that its people are entitled to.

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/bush/cheneymeetthepress.htm

[rug]

9. "The war is over."

I'll gather some more tomorrow.

[Gold Metal Flake]

17. Please do. This is certainly good news.

[Uzybone]

10. 2005 - Cheney

"The level of activity that we see today from a military standpoint, I think, will clearly decline. I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency."

[BootinUp]

11. "...cake walk" Kenneth Adelman PNAC nt

[Poboy]

12. There was a relationship between Iraq and al-Qaeda.-Vice President Cheney, 9/14/03

There's overwhelming evidence there was a connection between al Qaeda and the Iraqi government. I am very confident that there was an established relationship there." - Vice President Cheney, 1/22/04

The regime of Saddam Hussein cultivated ties to terror while it built weapons of mass destruction. - President Bush's UN speech, 9/23/03

Iraq the central front in the war on terror. -President Bush's UN speech, 9/23/03

You can't distinguish between al-Qaida and Saddam. - President Bush, 9/25/02

There's no question that Saddam Hussein had al Qaeda ties. - President Bush, 9/17/03

There was a relationship between Iraq and al-Qaeda. - Vice President Cheney, 9/14/03

[pscot]

13. Mission Accomplished

n/t

[BootinUp]

14. "Let Freedom reign!" Bush to Condi love note. nt

[Gold Metal Flake]

15. Paul Wolfowitz, 2003

“The oil revenue of that country could bring between 50 and 100 billion dollars over the course of the next two or three years. We’re dealing with a country that could really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon,”

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

16. Shock and Awe

[BootinUp]

18. "We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud."

–National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, on Iraq's nuclear capabilities and the Bush administration's case for war, Sept. 8, 2002

http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/stupidquotes/a/iraqquotes_2.htm

[Poboy]

19. We found the weapons of mass destruction. -President Bush, 5/29/03

We found the weapons of mass destruction. -President Bush, 5/29/03

: "We know where the WMDs are. - Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, 3/30/03

The people of the United States and our friends and allies will not live at the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder. - President Bush, 3/19/03

We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories. -President Bush, on locating the mobile biological weapons labs, 5/29/03

We know where the are. - Don Rumsfeld, 3/30/03

Iraq has at least seven mobile factories for the production of biological agents - equipment mounted on trucks and rails to evade discovery. -President Bush, 2/8/03

I'm absolutely sure that there are weapons of mass destruction there and the evidence will be forthcoming. We're just getting it now. - Colin Powell, 5/4/03

[grantcart]

46. Cheney also told Larry King (?) "we know where the WMD are".

[BeHereNow]

20. BEST ONE EVER: Rumsfeld's Known/Unknown poetry...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RpSv3HjpEw

"There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know.
There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know.
But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know."
Donald Rumsfeld

Unbelievable.

BHN

[Posteritatis]

32. To be fair, I genuinely love that quote out of context.. (nt)

[SharonAnn]

48. That is actually a principle of formal Risk Assessment. Planning for various

potential situations and outcomes.

You can plan for what you know, but you need to be aware that there are things you don't know and that you may not know what they are.

The goal is to get that subset of "unknown unknowns" to as small a possible size in order to reduce risk.

It is an accurate Risk Assessment statement. It's just not a good "political" statement since it is likely to be misunderstood by so many.

[YankmeCrankme]

49. To be fair that is Risk Assessment horse crap

Seriously, "...you need to be aware that there are things you don't know and that you may not know what they are." You just said the same thing. You don't know something and you don't know what that something you don't know is. It kind of boggles the mind.

You can't plan for "unknown unknowns", you can't even contemplate it. If it is unknown how do you think about it? Because once you think it, it becomes known and then you can plan for it. You can never reduce unknown unknowns because they are by definition infinite.

They actually teach illogical thinking and call it Risk Management?

[BootinUp]

21. "...there are things we know we know.. Rumsfeld

"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know."

[BeHereNow]

23. Ha-ha! I just posted the you-tube of that speech above your post!

DU minds and all...
BHN

[BootinUp]

35. I saw that you beat me there ;-)

[BeHereNow]

26. I just posted the you tube of that speech above you...

The ramblings of an insane person.

BHN

[BootinUp]

22. "I just want you to know that, when we talk about war

we're really talking about peace." --Washington, D.C. June 18, 2002 - George W. Bush

[TheKentuckian]

That's the one, "war is peace" in chimp gibberish

[Arkana]

24. Oh! Oh! What was the one with Rumsfeld

when he was asked where the WMDs were? That one was my favorite.

[BeHereNow]

27. I posted a link to that speech above-

and included the quote in print-
Unbelievable- truly.

BHN

[Greyhound]

45. "Nobody could've predicted...". K&R

[jimshoes]

25. We know where they are (WMD's)

"We know where they are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat." Another Rumsferatu gem.

[Gold Metal Flake]

28. "Money trumps peace sometimes." George Bush

[Poboy]

30. Thats one there... The rage resurfaces.

Look at all these LIES.

PROSECUTE!

okay, maybe just ONE investigation?

Unreal.

[BootinUp]

31. watch the daily show vid below if you want to remember

a little rage.

[BootinUp]

29. Bush's Words - The Daily Show (video)

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-september-1-2004/bush-s-words

with Stephen Colbert

[Gold Metal Flake]

34. Damn.

[Old and In the Way]

33. "The Iraq War will pay for itself"

: "he American part of this will be $1.7 billion. We have no plans for any further-on funding for this."

Truth-Out has the Bush Liars hall-of-Infame here-


http://www.truth-out.org/article/the-architects-war-where-are-they-now

[tanyev]

36. "Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be here somewhere"

[dgauss]

37. "From a marketing point of view, you don't introduce new products in August.''

Andrew Card

[BootinUp]

38. I remember that

the smug asshole.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

39. The truth is that...

The truth is that, for reasons that have a lot to do with the U.S. government bureaucracy, we settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on which was weapons of mass destruction as the core reason .

Paul Wolfowitz 5/9/2003

[BootinUp]

40. "Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction." - W.

Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.

[dgauss]

41. Foundational quote: "We create our own reality."

[chill_wind]

43. That's one I'd forgotten. That Scooter Libby bastard. Full quote:

"We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality, we'll act again, creating other new realities.."

Freakin pack of pure Machiavelli's.

[chill_wind]

42. George Tenet: "It's a slam dunk case." Richard Perle utterings:

Too ironic for words..

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.


Too insane for words..

If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now.

[Scurrilous]

44. K & R

:thumbsup: