"Five days or five weeks or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last any longer than that. It won't be a World War III." --Donald Rumsfeld, 11/2002
"... could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months." --Donald Rumsfeld, 2/2003
"We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. . . . I think it will go relatively quickly... (in) weeks rather than months." --Dick Cheney 3/2003
"... from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time." --Dan Quayle, 10/2/1990
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. --George Orwell, Polemic, 5/1946, "Second Thoughts on James Burnham"
1,460 days. (48 months or 208+ weeks.) And counting...
It has now been 1,460 days since we invaded Iraq. As of yesterday, we have now surpassed the ("official") length of our (own) Civil War (4/12/1861 - 4/9/1865). Monday, it'll be 4 years.
When I wrote about us passing the WWII landmark last November, I was cautiously optimistic that, by this landmark, our pullout would be under way. Alas, I should have known better.
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