”I really do believe we will be greeted as liberators,” U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney declared on television just as U.S. troops were massing along
the border between Kuwait and Iraq on the eve of Washington's march to Baghdad.
”Wildly off the mark,” declared Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, when asked by senators just before the war whether he agreed with
then-Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki's estimate that more than 200,000 troops would be needed as an occupation force after the war.
”I believe it is definitely more likely than not that some degree of common knowledge between (al Qaeda and Iraq) was involved” in the Sep. 11, 2001
attacks on New York and the Pentagon, former Central Intelligence Agency chief and Defense Policy Board member James Woolsey testified before a
federal court just before the war.
”We know where they are,” Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld assured television viewers about the location of Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction
(WMD) at the end of March, two weeks into the war. ”They are in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad, and east, west, south and north somewhat.”
”The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa,” declared President George W.
Bush in his late-January State of the Union address.
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