Letters to the Editor
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His crystal ball is pointed in the wrong direction
. . . the word 'war' conjures up World War II more than it does the Cold War. It creates a level of expectation of victory and an ending within 30 or 60 minutes of a soap opera. It isn't going to happen that way.
Sure, now he says that. It's not at all what he was saying when his team was making the case for invasion. If there were people who expected a quick conclusion to the war, maybe it's because that's exactly the way it was sold:
The idea that it's going to be a long, long, long battle of some kind I think is belied by the fact of what happened in 1990. . . . Five days or five weeks or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last any longer than that. --Donald Rumsfeld, November 2002
It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months. -- Donald Rumsfeld, February 2003
They must think the entire country suffers from short-term memory loss.