*Ø* Blogmanac September | Iraq War will last less than 5 months

So said Rumsfeld last November 14

Thank God it's all over

"If an America-led war with Iraq starts it is most likely to be short, according to the US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

"'I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today would last five days, or five weeks or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last any longer than that,' he said."

Source: BBC

Now Rummy says:

"JIM LEHRER: Rightly or wrongly, Mr. Secretary, I went back and checked the record today, the impression that was given in public statements and all that sort of thing was that when this war ended, this war was going to end, that when Saddam Hussein and his regime, you know, fell, then the rest of it was going to be kind of a mop-up. And I'm just –

"DONALD RUMSFELD: Not by me."

Source: PBS News Hour

[Hugs & kisses to Eschaton where I found the links]