Rumsfeld reveals memo showing of problematic items in attacking Iraq - such as not finding WMD's

[sabra]

http://men.style.com/gq/features/full?id=content_5896&pageNum=12

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He says he will show me the memo. (And eventually, he does. It's just as he describes it.) "I wrote down all of the things that could be problems: That we wouldn't find weapons of mass destruction. That there'd be a Fortress Baghdad, and a lot of people would be killed. All of this… I read it in a National Security Council meeting. Then I went back to my office—I had handwritten it—and I dictated it and added four or five things. And I think there's probably thirty items on it. And then I sent it around to each of the members of the National Security Council, to the president and the vice president. So that all of them had in their heads the things that were difficult, problematic, worrisome, dangerous."

And how was it received?

"Um…" A pause. He is carefully choosing his words. "I think it was…appreciated by the president that I took the time to do that."

And do you think the president—

"Yeah, I thought he read it. Yeah."

http://zfacts.com/p/87.html

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Rumsfeld, 7/2003.
"I don't do quagmires."

Wolfowitz, 3/2003.
Iraq: "can really finance its own reconstruction."

Cheney, 3/2003.
"I think it'll go relatively quickly, …Weeks rather than months."

Adelman, 2/2002.
"Liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk."

[LiberalFighter]

1. They forgot to consider that it might take years or decades.

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. Once we invaded & occupied the place none of those things mattered anymore

We were in there and there was nothing anybody could do about it after the fact. They knew this.