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Originally posted by skipdup
Respectfully... What in the world are you talking about? 
I don't remember the president saying any of these things. I do remember the president telling how hard the road ahead will be, etc...
You may be right about the war being lost. But it is shameful to me that we could loose such an important war based on the stomach of a soft citizenry.
What do you think will happen if you're right? Think all the terrorists in Iraq will just go home? Do you think we will all be safe if we just give up on Iraq? How many in Iraq do you suppose will be murdered for being sympathetic to the US?
- Skip
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Well, it’s more than disappointment. It eats me up inside, it makes me worry for my kids, and it makes me mourn for our proud country. I wish calling Cindy Sheehan names would make me feel better, but I'm not that kind of person. I want leadership in this country. What we have is not even close. We are not a soft people, but we have a soft and lazy leadership.
I'm surprised you don't remember the disconnect between the rosy picture being painted in the White House and the news "on the ground." There was a debate, for a while anyway, over whether the "liberal media" was giving us nothing but doom and gloom stories while the administration was positive and upbeat. Anyway, that debate did not last long as it became more and more plain that Iraq was and is a colossal nightmare.
I collected a few quotes for you backing up my original post. Could not find one actually saying that we would be met with flowers, but I remember it. Maybe it came from the media, though.
Vice President Dick Cheney promised on NBC's Meet the Press that "We will be greeted as liberators,"
Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz predicted that the "Iraqis would welcome a U.S. invading force"
Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz: “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.” [Source: House Committee on Appropriations Hearing on a Supplemental War Regulation, 3/27/03]
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld: “I don't believe that the United States has the responsibility for reconstruction, in a sense…[Reconstruction] funds can come from those various sources I mentioned: frozen assets, oil revenues and a variety of other things, including the Oil for Food, which has a very substantial number of billions of dollars in it. [Source: Senate Appropriations Hearing, 3/27/03]
Monday, June 20, 2005; The insurgency in Iraq is "in the last throes," Vice President Dick Cheney says … in a wide-ranging interview Monday on CNN's "Larry King Live"