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zonkers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-07-06 01:39 PM
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Great Koolaid moment #1:"Iraq's oil revenue will pay for reconstruction."
Edited on Mon Aug-07-06 01:42 PM by zonkers
Please help me, list some more.
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-07-06 01:41 PM
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1. "I believe the insurgency is in its last throes." nt
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cyberpj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-07-06 01:44 PM
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2. The ever-popular... They will welcome us as liberators. nt
Edited on Mon Aug-07-06 01:46 PM by cyberpj
snip...
"The read we get on the people of Iraq is there is no question but what they want to the get rid of Saddam Hussein and they will welcome as liberators the United States when we come to do that." (Cheney, Meet the Press, 3/16/03)

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htuttle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-07-06 01:46 PM
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3. RUMSFELD: "The war will last weeks, not months"
:rofl:
:cry:
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sutz12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-07-06 01:47 PM
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4. "Turning the corner."
When you turn enough corners, you're going in circles.
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NanceGreggs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-07-06 01:51 PM
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5. February 2002 - from Bill Kristol ...
“Having defeated and then occupied Iraq, democratizing the country should not be too tall an order for the world's sole superpower.”
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tuvor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-07-06 01:51 PM
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6. Hey, exactly WHERE has all that revenue been going, anyway?
Serious question.
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Nicholas D Wolfwood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-07-06 01:52 PM
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7. Bush will be a uniter, not a divider.
I suppose in one way that's true - he HAS pretty well united Democrats and he's never done any arithmetic beyond addition and subtraction in his life. :D
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jlayson Donating Member (60 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-07-06 01:52 PM
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8. Sooo thirsty
"Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking
about wiretap, it requires -- a wiretap requires a court order. Nothing has
changed, by the way. When we're talking about chasing down terrorists, we're
talking about getting a court order before we do so"
-George W. Bush, April 20, 2004
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Virginia Dare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-07-06 02:01 PM
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9. Mission Accomplished....n/t
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NanceGreggs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-07-06 02:15 PM
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10. Richard Perle must be VERY SURPRISED ...
... This (2003) prediction of his did not come to pass:

“And a year from now, I'll be very surprised if there is not some grand square in Baghdad that is named after President Bush.”
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JAYJDF Donating Member (322 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-07-06 02:16 PM
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11. And the site listed below gets longer and longer
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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-07-06 02:17 PM
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12. What was that "stuff happens" statement made by Rummy?
I just remember that that was the gist of it.
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jdlh8894 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-07-06 02:35 PM
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13. Damn People !!!
We have fish to fry tommorrow!!!! Quit making jokes or whatever and go out and get people started!
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