By Rohan Pearce
"I can’t tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won’t last any longer than thatâ€â€”US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, cnn, November 15, 2002.
“Now, I think things have gotten so bad inside Iraq, from the standpoint of the Iraqi people, my belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberatorsâ€â€”US Vice President Dick Cheney, NBC’s Meet the Press, March 16, 2003.