Lawrence Di Rita Quotes
Within 120 days, we’ll win this war and get all U.S. troops out of the country, except 30,000
He was the spokesperson for Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and the Administration’s Iraq War effort. It has never been ascertained whether the George W. Bush Administration was deliberately lying about the Iraq invasion or whether they were terribly naïve and not very competent.
Lawrence Di Rita, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs (Republican), Quoted by Colonel Hughes, Special Assistant to United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, Discussing Iraq with the Director of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance, Jay Garner, 2003, Quoted in Thomas E. Ricks, Fiasco- The American Military Adventure in Iraq
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The Vice President was one of the architects of and advocates for the Iraq War. To garner public support he (and the others supporting the war) claimed that Iraq had developed weapons of mass destruction and made a serious of predictions about the war. He was wrong on all counts. There were no WMDs, none were even being developed, and we needed hundreds of thousands of troops for a decade as we were not greeted as liberators but the vast majority of our casualties and deaths in Iraq came after the invasion was successful and the population showed very hostile to U. S. occupation and our governing policies.
The senator proposed that the U. S. withdraw its forces from Vietnam and declare victory:
General Grant had the fort surrounded and the confederate general hoped to surrender the fort and allow him and his men to leave to fight again some other day. This was often agreed to so the military objective would be gained without the casualties of a battle. However, Grant and Lincoln did not simply want to gain forts and territory. They wanted to end the war. Those Confederates who survived the battle were taken prisoner and were out of the fight.
Haig was one of those who thought that President George W. Bush should have continued the war and occupied the country and the cities to eliminate Saddam. His own son, George W. Bush, later invaded Iraq and did occupy the country and eliminate Saddam, but the cost was so high that few Americans thought it was worth the cost in American casualties and money. The younger Bush proved how wise his father and Colin Powell had been. See {622764}.
Lawrence Di Rita is an American political advisor who served as an aide to United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. He has also worked as a spokesman for Bank of America.
