Where is the guy who said Iraq was going to be a cakewalk?

[KlatooBNikto]

[shraby]

1. Wolfowitz?

[KlatooBNikto]

2. I don't think that is the guy but with these people you never know.

They are all so interchangeable.

[skylarmae]

3. Cheney said they would welcome us as liberators and throw flowers

and Chalabi played up the ease before war began. Recall he sat right behind Mrs. Porgie at the state of the Union '03.

[skylarmae]

8. and wasn't it Alawi the one who told the British 45 minute WMD

attack capability from Baghdad just as we were going in? Funny how they had Chalabi help in the reconstruction. Disgraced just before handover of the country back to the Iraqis to the point that arrest warrants and search warrants were issued and carried out on him. And who replaces in as PM of the new regime, Alawi, the other pre-war neo-con.

[Abid Hamid]

4. Iraq will be no cake walk

[nostamj]

5. it was Ken Adelman... here's the WP article

Cakewalk In Iraq

By Ken Adelman
Wednesday, February 13, 2002;

<snip>

I believe demolishing Hussein's military power and liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk. Let me give simple, responsible reasons: (1) It was a cakewalk last time; (2) they've become much weaker; (3) we've become much stronger; and (4) now we're playing for keeps.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A1996-2002Feb12?language=printer

[Philostopher]

6. He was an editorial writer -- possibly Washington Post?

Named Ken Adelman. He not only used that phrase first, but actually annotated it and spelled it out in an article.

I think this is the article:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A1996-2002Feb12?language=printer

As to where he is, probably ... oh, I don't know, refusing to admit it wasn't a cakewalk I would assume. Enjoying his Halliburton stock options. While a special stall in hell is being built for him.

[Owlet]

Ken Adelman - aka Mr. Cakewalk

http://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/adelman_k/adelman_k.php

- "I believe that demolishing Hussein's military power and liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk. . This President Bush does not need to amass rinky-dink nations as 'coalition partners' to convince the Washington establishment that we're right." (26)

He popped up one night last week on The Newshour. Was more subdued than I've seen him in past appearances.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

7. Making plans for the liberation of Andorra or Rhode Island.

Something our military has a chance of handling.

[Eric J in MN]

9. there is a song, Operation Cakewalk

on the middle of this page:

http://www.moveleft.com/moveleft_entertainment.asp

To just play the mp3, click below:

http://www.moveleft.com/moveleft/audio/OperationCakewalk041604.mp3

[IkeWarnedUs]

10. That would be our old buddy, Richard Perle

Kenneth Adelman, Perle's Defense Policy Board colleague, also wrote an article for the Washington Post 2/13/02 called "Cakewalk In Iraq" where he says Iraq would be a cakewalk and his reasons why.

Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A1996-2002Feb12?language=printer

By the way, The Country Joe Band has a song called "Cakewalk to Baghdad". Here is a sample:

I remember back, before we whacked Iraq
I was watching the news, were we gonna attack?
A man named Richard Perle came on and talked
He said going to Baghdad would be a cakewalk

<snip>

Easy to cakewalk in ... not so easy to cakewalk out.

Link to the lyrics and to hear the song: http://www.countryjoe.com/cjb.htm


None of this to be confused with George Tenet's prediction that the intelligence about Iraq's WMD's was a "slam-dunk."