Remember Wolfowitz's testimony before Congress, before the war

[JPJones]

Where he was asked about how the insurgency would be handled after the invasion, and he was like, "What insurgency?", since he still believed the Iraqis would be throwing flowers at us?

I'm looking for the transcript or any information that might lead to tracking this down.

[ropi]

1. here are some things i found

May not be what you are looking for, but it's a start:

http://www.dod.mil/transcripts/2004/tr20040623-depsecdef1481.html
http://www.mclaughlin.com/library/transcript.asp?id=415
http://www.dod.gov/transcripts/2004/tr20040714-1002.html
http://www.iraqwatch.org/government/US/HearingsPreparedstatements/us-hasc-transcript-061604.htm

http://usembassy-australia.state.gov/hyper/2004/0624/epf406.htm
http://www.uspolicy.be/issues/iraq/iraq_usghearings.asp

edit: added a few sites

[JPJones]

3. He said these things before the war, like Feb. or March 2003

I actually saw video of it in something - maybe CNN's Gulf War II - The BFEE Strikes Back.

[ropi]

still looking

http://www.useu.be/Categories/GlobalAffairs/Iraq/Mar1103WolfowitzIraqTerrorism.html
http://www.fex.org/pdfs/spring_2003_nn.pdf

A HISTORY OF MISLEADING THE PUBLIC: Before the war, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz promised that Iraq "can really finance its own reconstruction," USAID Director Andrew Natsios promised Iraq operations would cost just $1.7 billion total, and the White House budget office said "Iraq will not require sustained aid." Those estimates proved far from accurate. Then last year, the White House fired top economic adviser Larry Lindsey after he acknowledged the cost of Iraq would be between $100 and $200 billion (experts now estimate it will cost over $300 billion). Budget Director Josh Bolten said on 7/29/03 that "we don't anticipate requesting anything additional for the balance of this year." Six weeks later, the president asked for another $87 billion for Iraq and Afghanistan, bringing the total to $166 billion. And this year, in an effort to obscure the worsening deficit picture, the White House omitted all costs of ongoing operations in Iraq from its budget, even as military planners said more money would be needed. Now, the White House has requested another $25 billion"

the above from http://www.hillary.org/forums/Hillary_Clinton_Forum_1155.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A6338-2004Mar18?language=printer
http://usinfo.org/wf-archive/2003/031027/epf108.htm

[ropi]

6. still looking

http://www.useu.be/Categories/GlobalAffairs/Iraq/Mar1103WolfowitzIraqTerrorism.html
http://www.fex.org/pdfs/spring_2003_nn.pdf

A HISTORY OF MISLEADING THE PUBLIC: Before the war, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz promised that Iraq "can really finance its own reconstruction," USAID Director Andrew Natsios promised Iraq operations would cost just $1.7 billion total, and the White House budget office said "Iraq will not require sustained aid." Those estimates proved far from accurate. Then last year, the White House fired top economic adviser Larry Lindsey after he acknowledged the cost of Iraq would be between $100 and $200 billion (experts now estimate it will cost over $300 billion). Budget Director Josh Bolten said on 7/29/03 that "we don't anticipate requesting anything additional for the balance of this year." Six weeks later, the president asked for another $87 billion for Iraq and Afghanistan, bringing the total to $166 billion. And this year, in an effort to obscure the worsening deficit picture, the White House omitted all costs of ongoing operations in Iraq from its budget, even as military planners said more money would be needed. Now, the White House has requested another $25 billion"

the above from http://www.hillary.org/forums/Hillary_Clinton_Forum_1155.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A6338-2004Mar18?language=printer
http://usinfo.org/wf-archive/2003/031027/epf108.htm

[yardwork]

2. He also said that there were no religious differences in Iraq

AND he said that the war would pay for itself. Wouldn't cost us a dime.

[JPJones]

5. Yes, quotes saying this is what I'm looking for

I'm making a flyer and one of the sections is 'The Iraq war was bungled'.

This is what I have so far:

The Swift Boat Veterans are liars

John O'Neill, author of a highly critical account of Kerry's Vietnam service, describes the man Kerry chased as a "teenager" in a "loincloth." I have no idea how old the gunner Kerry chased that day was, but both Leeds and I recall that he was a grown man, dressed in the kind of garb the VC usually wore.

The man Kerry chased was not the "lone" attacker at that site, as O'Neill suggests. There were others who fled. There was also firing from the tree line well behind the spider holes and at one point, from the opposite riverbank as well. It was not the work of just one attacker.

William Rood, Commander of Swiftboat PCF-23 on the day John Kerry won the Silver Star
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0408220342aug22,1,3493818.story?coll=chi-news-hed


The picture I have in my mind of Kerry bending over from his boat picking some hapless guy out of the river while all hell was breaking loose around us, is a picture based on fact and it cannot be disputed or changed. It's a piece of history drawn in my mind that cannot be redrawn. Sorry, "Swift Boats Veterans for the Truth"- that is the truth.

To say that John Kerry or any of us were on that river to intentionally collect Purple Hearts really does every soldier and sailor, past and present, a disservice. We were going up those rivers (with an ongoing casualty rate of 86 percent at the time) on the orders of the same people who approved of Kerry's medals and who are now joining in the attacks against Kerry. Unbelievable.

Jim Russell, On PCF-43 the day John Kerry won the a Bronze star and Purple Heart
http://www.telluridegateway.com/articles/2004/08/20/news/opinion/opinion01.txt


"Myself, Pat Runyon, and John Kerry," says Zaladonis, the engineman on Kerry's first swift boat, "we were the only ones in the skimmer." "There definitely was not a fourth," says Runyon.

Somehow, Kerry's weapon stopped firing. Runyon thinks he ran out of ammunition. He said Kerry bent down to pick up another gun and got hit in the arm.

Pat Runyon and Bill Zaladonis were on the boat the day John Kerry won his first Purple Heart
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/president/kerry/articles/2004/08/20/kerry_comrades_have_credibility_on_their_side/


Bush is a Doofus

"Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB/GYN's aren't able to practice their love with women all across the country."—Sept. 6, 2004, Poplar Bluff, Mo.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N06540712.htm


Bush is a Liar

State of the Union, 2003

- 25,000 liters of anthrax
- 38,000 liters of botulinum toxin
- 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent

That is 1,000,000 pounds of nerve gas.

However, Bush did say, "They could still be there. They could be hidden, like the 50 tons of mustard gas in a turkey farm," in a press conference on April 13, 2004. However, the turkey farm had only empty munitions and no mustard gas. And the turkey farm was in Libya, not Iraq.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2001903958_terrordig15.html


The Iraq war was bungled



Bush is a divider, not a uniter

Bush cares about the super rich, but doesn't care about the average guy.

[ropi]

7. and more

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Iraq%20War%20WMD%20controversy

http://www.why-war.com/news/2003/06/19/thefirst.html

[ropi]

8. SOTU

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030128-19.html

[IndianaGreen]

4. Ask Wolfowitz about those AIPAC/Israel spies that work for him

and why are we sending our men and women to die on behalf of Ariel Sharon's goals.

[riverwalker]

9. and all his visits to Abu Ghraib

pictures of touring the prison with Karpinski and Sanchez. The torture orders had to have come from the sadistic racist pervert.