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To: greenspirit who wrote (173063)	10/22/2005 3:53:30 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

What are you talking about at this late date? Don't you remember anything? This is the entire Rummy plan for the Iraq war!!!!!!!!! It was voiced in talkingpoints by Cheney, Wolfowitz et al along with the $1.7 billion price tag since Iraq's oil industry would pay for the rest. Where have you been? It was supposed to be a swift campaign, so swift that the supply lines failed to keep up with the soldiers and they were very hungry for awhile. How can you have such concrete opinions when you have no facts? ----------------- The war “could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months.” – Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld [2/7/03] “We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. . . . I think it will go relatively quickly... (in) weeks rather than months.” – Vice President Cheney [3/16/03] ======== Remember, this was the ENTIRE PLAN for Iraq and it very quickly went awry: a swift 'war' of maybe a week or so, the fall of Saddam and then a magical turning of Iraqis into quasi-Americans. "...Within weeks, if all went well, Iraqis would begin taking control of their own affairs and the exit of U.S. troops would be well underway. "Everyone thought it could be done on a small investment and that Iraqis could be mobilized to do the bulk of the job," said Tim Carney, a former diplomat recruited to manage an Iraqi ministry...." washingtonpost.com Almost immediately the plans went awry and then, they went REALLY AWRY: washingtonpost.com