LEADERSHIP

OR LACK THEREOF

"I can't say if the use of force would last five days or five weeks or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last any longer than that." Donald Rumsfeld on National Public Radio - 2003

"The level of activity that we see today from a military standpoint, I think, will clearly decline. I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency." Dick Cheney - 6/20/05

"We're not going to win against the insurgency. The Iraqi people are going to win against the insurgency. That insurgency could go on for any number of years. Insurgencies tend to go on five, six, eight, 10, 12 years."
Donald Rumsfeld - 6/26/05

"We made basic mistakes going into Iraq from the beginning. We never had enough troops going in. We should have had at least double or triple. There was one bad decision after another. [One] bad decision was allowing Don Rumsfeld and the Pentagon to run postwar Iraq. It's an absolute joke to say that we have a coalition of the willing." Chuck Hagel - 6/20/05