Bury Me Broken

Making It Up As They Go Along

This administration has excellent PR and gives off an aura of robust, unwavering assurance that everything is going as planned and on schedule. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

Judd from Think Progress quotes Donald Rumsfeld from Sunday's Meet the Press:

Anyone who tries to estimate the end, the time, the cost or the casualties in a war is making a big mistake.

The problem is, when every single one of them went before Congress, they made those estimates with assurance and it turned out to be a big mistake:

Donald Rumsfeld, 3/7/03:

It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months.

Vice President Dick Cheney, 3/16/03:

I think it will go relatively quickly, . . . (in) weeks rather than months

New York Times, 2/2/03:

The administration’s top budget official [Mitch Daniels] estimated today that the cost of a war with Iraq could be in the range of $50 billion to $60 billion.

To date, the war has lasted 27 months at a cost of over 200 billion dollars.

What would really be nice is if a reporter or two actually knew what they were doing and could actually step in and say that you committed the same mistake that you are accusing the supported liberal, naysaying doomsdayers of doing.

posted by niteskolar @ 5:22 PM