Who said this? (Iraq)

[varwoche]

These statements were made by different individuals regarding Iraq. Guess who. Answers at bottom, or in links.

Quote 1: Anyone could know the problems they were going to see. How could they not? I think that some heads should roll over Iraq.
article (http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/military/20040416-9999-7m16zinni.html) Quote 2: The major problem with the Iraq war is that it distracted us from the war against terrorism. I think someone should have gone to the president when the, when the discussion of going to Iraq was broached and have said, Mr. President, this is something that can only help Osama bin Laden. Whatever the danger posed by Saddam, whatever weapons he had, is almost irrelevant in that the boost it would give to al-Qaida was easily seen.
article (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5279743/) Quote 3: At this point, I would have thought there would have been a more comprehensive plan, that somebody would have told at least me or somebody else ... these are the things we're going to do. The fact is, we don't know what we're going to do.
article (http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/04/lugar.iraq.transfer/) Quote 4: We are seeing huge cracks developing in our force structure. The fact is, if we're going to continue with this, we're going to have to be honest with the American people.
article (http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/06/30/MNGTS7E5RK1.DTL) Quote 5: We paid a big price for not stopping it because it established an atmosphere of lawlessness. We never had enough troops on the ground.
article (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7053-2004Oct4.html) Quote 6: Rumsfeld was saying that we needed to bomb Iraq. And we all said no. Al-Qaeda is in Afghanistan. We need to bomb Afghanistan. And Rumsfeld said there aren't any good targets in Afghanistan. And there are lots of good targets in Iraq. I said, 'Well, there are lots of good targets in lots of places, but Iraq had nothing to do with it. I think they wanted to believe that there was a connection, but the CIA was sitting there, the FBI was sitting there, I was sitting there saying we've looked at this issue for years. For years we've looked and there's just no connection.
article (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/19/60minutes/main607356.shtml)
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#1 Admiral Anthony Zinni (ret)
Bush's Mid-East Peace Envoy
bio (http://www.usmc.mil/genbios2.nsf/0/65AB0DA17487377285256A40007188D3?opendocument)

#2 CIA's "Anonymous"
In charge of the CIA Bin Laden station
(known to press corp; only anon because CIA required it)

#3 Richard Lugar, Senate (GOP)
Chairman, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
bio (http://www.vote-smart.org/bio.php?can_id=S0280103)

#4 Chuck Hagel (GOP)
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Select Committee on Intelligence
bio (http://www.vote-smart.org/bio.php?can_id=BC031069)

#5 Paul Bremer
Head of Iraq Civilian Authority
bio (http://www.fact-index.com/l/l_/l__paul_bremer.html)

#6 Richard Clark
Bush's counter-terrorism czar
bio (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3559087.stm)

[demon]

I`d like to add two more classics:

"A year from now, I'll be very surprised if there is not some grand square in Baghdad that is named after President Bush."
(Richard Perle, American Enterprise Institute Keynote speech
September 22, 2003)

which is as scary a departure from reality as Ken Adelman's:

"liberating Iraq will be a cakewalk"

As for Bremer`s:

"We paid a big price for not stopping it because it established an atmosphere of lawlessness. We never had enough troops on the ground."

...well, these neocon dudes never stop to baffle common sense. Maybe it was too many troops on the ground that turned Iraq into mayhem and chaos, roughly 100 percent too many troops.

[shecky]

Originally posted by demon
I`d like to add two more classics:

"A year from now, I'll be very surprised if there is not some grand square in Baghdad that is named after President Bush."
(Richard Perle, American Enterprise Institute Keynote speech
September 22, 2003)

From that same speech, this made me laugh out loud for some reason.


The question was about Ahmed Chelabi and reference was to an article which I haven't read. But let me just say that the Iraqi people must choose their next government, their leaders. If they choose Ahmed Chelabi, I think they will have a very bright future.

I've known Ahmed Chelabi for more than a dozen years. He is a man, in my experience, of absolute integrity and courage, and he would be a great Iraqi leader.