He said it on Feb 2003.
2006-12-04 07:44:54 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Quagmire??
2006-12-04 07:45:46 · update #1
Rumsfeld is a smart man.
2006-12-04 07:46:56 · update #2
They only listened to intel that would fit into their plans. And he's arrogant and incompetent.
Remember how we were told that oil revenues would pay for the war? That was almost a trillion dollars ago.
2006-12-04 07:53:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Because technically, it didn't even last that long. The war part is over, or so Bush said in May of 03, I believe. This is supposed to be the support/security/rebuilding part.
2006-12-04 16:16:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Could it be semantics? As in calling what is going on in Iraq now an official civil war or not...the results could be huge. The wording of a thing can have so much impact thanks to the legalese of our modern world. And remember, it was Rummy who made the erroneous remark about shooting down Flight 93.
Nah, he said it, no doubt. I can't defend or implicate him except to say that as humans, we all make mistakes and errors in judgment. I have made more than my share. :) And if we do not get more aggressive in this fight, I think we are making an error. But that's just my view, and I might be wrong......
2006-12-04 15:53:49 · answer #3 · answered by Rich B 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because Rumsfeld is a dumby unable to tell you where Iraq is on the map.
2006-12-04 15:53:55 · answer #4 · answered by zakaria 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Just like Dick Cheney saying that the Iraq war is at its last throes or Bush saying there's WMDs in Iraq.
2006-12-04 16:00:43 · answer #5 · answered by tyrone b 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Because the information that was given him was that. In war you have to adapt and change all the time. This isnt a video game buddy.
2006-12-04 15:50:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
He might have been told to say it
Or it might come from the project for the next Ameican century
Thats the group him Cheney and Wolfawitz belonged to
sorta like the racoons
2006-12-04 15:48:59 · answer #7 · answered by gdeach 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
So that congress would declare war. Once it's declared who's to say how long it would last.
2006-12-04 20:51:34 · answer #8 · answered by NA 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the war itself did last a few months.... the war is over. we are occupying now.
2006-12-04 16:24:34 · answer #9 · answered by jefferson 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To stall long enough for the Bush administration to leave office quietly.
2006-12-04 15:47:11 · answer #10 · answered by WC 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋