Reply #12: Americans were misled. That's such a nice way of putting it.

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That "Mission Accomplished!" carrier PR stunt... you mean the war wasn't really over?


"Five days or five weeks or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last any longer than that."
-- Donald Rumsfeld, November 2002


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.

-- Paul Wolfowitz, March 2003