Once again, Secretary of State Condi Rice is lying to the American public. On Fox News Sunday, when asked whether she stated that "the Bush administration fairly [can] be criticized for failing to level with the American people about how long and difficult this commitment will be?" Rice responded "[T]he administration, I think, has said to the American people that it is a generational commitment to Iraq." However, this simply isn't the case. The administration did state that the war on terrorism would be a generational commitment, but with regard to the Iraq war the following statements were made prior to our invasion in March 2003:
Feb. 7, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, to U.S. troops in Aviano, Italy: "It is unknowable how long that conflict will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months."
- March 4, Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at a breakfast with reporters: "What you'd like to do is have it be a short, short conflict. . . . Iraq is much weaker than they were back in the '90s," when its forces were routed from Kuwait.
- March 11, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, in a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars: "The Iraqi people understand what this crisis is about. Like the people of France in the 1940s, they view us as their hoped-for liberator."
- March 16, Vice President Cheney, on NBC's Meet the Press: "I think things have gotten so bad inside Iraq, from the standpoint of the Iraqi people, my belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. . . . I think it will go relatively quickly, . . . (in) weeks rather than months." He predicted that regular Iraqi soldiers would not "put up such a struggle" and that even "significant elements of the Republican Guard . . . are likely to step aside."
Link to source:
http://www.usatoday.com/educate/war28-article.htm
The bottom line is that once again members of the Bush administration are blatently lying to the American public. We can't let them get away with this deception. We need to act now to expose Condi's lies today on Fox News.
So I propose the following course of action, but I need some help.
(1) Let's find out when Condi will be appearing on another media program.
(2) Once we find out where Condi will once again be appearing to provide more false statements to the American public, we need to barrage the interviewing journalist with emails, faxes, phone calls, ect. to demand that they ask her to explain this lie and other bald face lies that she has previously told.
(3) We need to find even more quotes made by Bush and chronies claiming that Iraq would be a cakewalk, and that it wouldn't take long at all and contrast them with the lies now being told by Bush.
If we can just push a little bit, I think we can expose Condi and the rest of the Bush administration as the liars that they are. We just need to push these lazy, corporate journalists into asking the tough questions.