Rewriting History

Bush/Cheney say war critics are rewriting history.

Puts me in the mood for... another History Lesson!

*"Fuck Saddam, we're taking him out."
–President Bush to three U.S. Senators in March 2002, a full year before the Iraq invasion

*"I hope this Iraq situation will be resolved peacefully... I want to remind people that, Saddam Hussein, the choice is his to make as to whether or not the Iraqi situation is resolved peacefully. You said we're headed to war in Iraq -I don't know why you say that. I hope we're not headed to war in Iraq. I'm the person who gets to decide, not you."
-President Bush to reporters, December 31, 2002
(2 months after the Iraq resolution they now claim was a declaration of war)

*"There's a lot of money there [in Iraq]. To assume we're going to pay for it all is just wrong."
-Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz to Congress on February 27, 2003

*"What is, I think, reasonably certain is the idea that it would take several hundred thousand U.S. forces is far from the mark."
-Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld on March 3, 2003

*"My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators."
-Vice President on Meet The Press on March 16, 2003

*"The truth is that for reasons that have a lot to do with the U.S. government bureaucracy, we settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on, which was weapons of mass destruction, as the core reason."
-Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, "Vanity Fair" interview, May 28, 2003

*"Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed."
-President Bush under a giant Mission Accomplished banner on May 1, 2003

*"But the fact of the matter is that when we were attacked on September 11, we had a choice to make. We could decide that the proximate cause was al-Qaeda and the people who flew those planes into buildings and, therefore, we would go after al-Qaeda and perhaps after the Taliban and then our work would be done and we would try to defend ourselves.

Or we could take a bolder approach, which was to say that we had to go after the root causes of the kind of terrorism that was produced there, and that meant a different kind of Middle East."
-Condoleeza Rice on Meet The Press on June 16, 2005

*"Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."
-Text from the Downing Street Memos, July 2002

Poor, poor Bush administration, Their credibility appears to be in its last throes.