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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
I'm sorry -- I think you left out the part that you must have intended to quote, about how there would be a six-year occupation of Iraq.

Of course, since both of those quotes come from long before the Bush Admin was (publicly) discussing invading Iraq, that's hardly surprising. Those are quotes about a different, or certainly wider, war -- the war on terror, as they called it.

The "war on terror" is not coextensive with the war in Iraq (I would argue that the latter should never have been part of the former, but whatever.) Even if we had left Iraq in a month's time (or after Mission Accomplished, or while the insurgency was in its last throes, or whatever), the war on terror would still be going on (hell, we might be able to focus our military resources on that war -- that would be nice). And that is what those quotes refer to.

It's part of it, and you can't leave off a part once you start. But go back, in 03, did you really think it would be a 6 week proposition?