Pre-Iraq War statements by the Bush administration

[Michael_UK]

I'm sure this has been discussed before, but I wonder if anyone here knows much about what the administration predicted would happen in Iraq. I've been in a few discussions with supporters of the war and they've pointed out that a lot of the statements about the war being easy only referred to toppling of Saddam and not the insurgency. The Mission Accomplished speech actually said "we have difficult work to do", but that wasn't the message I think most people took from that speech.

Did the Bush administration give the message that the war would be easy? If so, was this explicit or did they use more subliminal messages ("freedom is on the march", etc)?

[kiki]

1. "Greeted as liberators"... "Flowers and candy"... n/t

[opihimoimoi]

2. The FEEDOM SHIT came AFTER it was determined NO WMD was found

then it turned into giving them their FREEDOM/DEMOCRACY BS

The Bushies are trying to clean their act...

too little too late now.

[FloridaPat]

3. The war was easy. The first military leader there started getting the

voting going for a new president. He was kicked out. They have their secret agendas and we can only guess what they are. Their goal - according to Greg Palast - was to keep the Iraq oil off the market. They have done everything they could to destroy that country. They have succeeded. Now Iraq is importing oil and the price of oil went from $20 to $75 a barrel. Yes, things are going well in Iraq.

We've been paying in blood and money for 50 years to keep our country supplied with cheap oil. Our gov't has has troops and CIA involved everywhere there is oil to keep those countries destablized so that we get first crack at that countries riches. Iraq is just more of the same.

[klyon]

4. you are right, no one thought Saddam would be any match

even in Gulf War I, when he had an army and weapons. The problem is that there was no plan other than overthrowing Saddam. Insurgency was not expected, the idea of civil war was laughed at and no plans were made other than installing our people(which failed) and securing the oil(which flows when pipeline is between bombings). "Mission Accomplished" was a PR stunt, he thought he was sailing along then.

[erik-the-red]

5. 1984

In my opinion, the actions of The Bush Administration have been creeping towards the dystopia presented in 1984. They say one thing but mean the exact opposite.