Liberal admission that they were wrong about Iraq mission will NOT be forthcoming, time to change the subject
The quagmire was three weeks in duration
We did not suffer massive casualties
Civilian population did not suffer massive casualties
No mass exodus of refugees
No massive retaliation on US soil (the liberals will blame the next one on Bush, for liberating Iraq and thereby provoking the terrorists)
At CENTCOM presser, Fox News asks first question about POW's held near Rasheed Airfield (after a bunch of selfish reporters ask about keeping reporters safe in a battle zone)
The only shooting in the city center was from Iraqi paramilitaries firing sporadically at U.S. forces across the river. The firing came from around the Palestine Hotel, home to many foreign journalists, but the U.S. military did not return fire.
"We are getting scraps of intelligence saying that Syria has been co-operative in facilitating the move of the people out of Iraq and into Syria," he said. "Then in some cases they stay there and find safekeeping there, in other cases they move them from Syria to some other places.
Mr Rumsfeld said yesterday that the US was worried about the possibility that the Iraqi regime might have succeeded in spiriting illegal weapons out of the country. He did not name Syria specifically.
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