Fables of the reconstruction

“We are dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction and relatively soon.”

Paul Wolfowitz (3/27/03)

“And 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 (9/22/03)

“[T]he American part of this will be $1.7 billion. We have no plans for any further-on funding for this.”

Andrew Natsios (4/23/03)

“I think they’re in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.”

Dick Cheney (06/20/05)