[Mo1]

Pentagon advisers like Richard Perle and Kenneth Adelman have been promising a cakewalk to Baghdad for 18 months; in the late 1990's, Paul Wolfowitz, now the deputy defense secretary, argued that a small American force fighting in conjunction with the Iraqi opposition could quickly overthrow Saddam Hussein.

I sure would like to know what the Media's definition of "cake walk" means?

No war is easy .. but I think in one week, our miltiary has done a damn good job

[Miss Marple]

Let me also point out that NO ONE within the administration said it would be a cakewalk. Perle and Adelman are not IN the administration.

More importantly, let us discuss that BILL CLINTON said this very thing, IN PRINT, in the London Times. Here is the article:

Trust Tony

Here is the operative paragraph:

In the face of the foot dragging, hawks in America have been pushing for an immediate attack on Iraq. Some of them want regime change for reasons other than disarmament, and, therefore, they have discredited the inspection process from the beginning; they did not want it to succeed. Because military action probably will require only a few days, they believe the world community will quickly unite on rebuilding Iraq as soon as Saddam is deposed.

He also said this in at least one speech. I want to make sure everyone knows that CLINTON raised expectations.

[prairiebreeze]

Someone pointed out on another post somewhere that the term "weeks, not months" which Bush used to talk about how much time the UN had and when the war was going to start is now being unfairly and inaccurrately applied to the duration of the war. Could be the case I think.

Prairie