Tony Snow: 'I'm Not Sure Anything Went Wrong' In IraqOh really Snowjob? Everything went according to plan, huh?
White House Press Secretary Tony Snow was asked about this today at the daily briefing, following the release of military documents from 2002 that revealed that the U.S. expected that by now a token American force of 5,000 would be able to keep things under control in Iraq -- and the occupation would require only a two or three month "stabilization" period.
"What went wrong?" the reporter reasonably asked.
Snow replied: "I'm not sure anything went wrong."
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. Dick Cheney [3/16/03]
"I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency." -- on the Iraq insurgency, Dick Cheney - June 20, 2005
In terms of the American taxpayers contribution, [$1.7 billion] is it for the US. The rest of the rebuilding of Iraq will be done by other countries and Iraqi oil revenues. The American part of this will be 1.7 billion. We have no plans for any further-on funding for this. USAID Director Andrew Natsios, 4/23/03
Iraq will be an affordable endeavor that will not require sustained aid and will be in the range of $50 billion to $60 billion . Budget Director Mitch Daniels [Forbes 4/11/03, W. Post 3/28/03, NY Times 1/2/03, respectively]
"Tommy Franks and the coalition forces have demonstrated the old axiom that boldness on the battlefield produces swift and relatively bloodless victory..."
(Fox News Channel's Tony Snow, 4/13/03)
Yeah, things sure went right as Bush and his minions planned it, huh Tony? There wasn't anything that went wrong.....
