*Ø* Blogmanac March 20 | Happy First Birthday, Shock and Awe

Tonight, British servicemen and women are engaged from air, land and sea. Their mission: to remove Saddam Hussein from power, and disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction.
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair telling porkies, March 20, 2003; the 'Coalition of the Willing' invaded Iraq today

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.
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on November 14, 2002, speaking on National Public Radio and Infinity Radio, USA Source

Myths

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.
Amnesiac Donald Rumsfeld, September 10, 2003 Source: PBS News Hour

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