Tony Snow: I'm Not Sure Anything Went Wrong In Iraq .

[edbermac]

NEW YORK Surely, at this stage, the White House would be willing to admit that conditions in Iraq following the 2003 invasion haven't gone exactly according to plan? White House Press Secretary Tony Snow was asked about this today at the daily briefing, following the release of military documents from 2002 that revealed that the U.S. expected that a token American force of 5,000 would be able to keep things under control in Iraq.

"What went wrong?" the reporter reasonably asked.

Snow replied: "I'm not sure anything went wrong."

He elaborated: "At the beginning of the Civil War, people thought it would all be over at Manassas. It is very difficult -- no, Jessica, the fact is, a war is a big, complex thing. And what you're talking about is a 2002 assessment. We're now in the year 2007, and it is well-known by anybody who has studied any war that war plans immediately become moot upon the first contact with the enemy.

"For instance, a lot of people did not think that we would have the success we had moving swiftly into Baghdad. All I'm saying is that -- what happens is, you're looking at a pre-war assessment, and there have been constant assessments ever since. A war is not a situation where you can sit down and neatly predict what exactly is going to happen. You make your best estimates, but you also understand that there are going to continue to be challenges, there are going to be things that you don't anticipate, there are going to be things that the enemy doesn't anticipate. And the most important task, frankly, is to continue to try to assess near-term and mid-term to figure out how best to address the situation."

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[TheCowsCameHome]

1. Why waste their time with that idiot? He's drunk on Kool-Aid

Gawd, talk about delusional.

[AzDar]

2. All those words, and yet he says NOTHING. What a ridiculous bunch....

:crazy:

[The Cleaner]

3. Never ceases to amaze me. These guys can spin a hippo into a mouse.

Talk about out of touch with reality.

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. or in the case of Iraq, a mouse into a hippo.

Unreal. Just unreal.

[karlrschneider]

Yeah, well, the assholes he works for sure had lots of neat 'predictions'

:grr:

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

4. If Iraq Is A Product Of Their Plan Going RIGHT, Then They Are Some Evil Intentioned Motherfuckers...

.....oh .....wait

[hippiechick]

18. ding ding ding !!

:evilfrown: It turned out exactly like they wanted it to.

Ka-ching Bling Bling. :spank:

[WI_DEM]

6. Tony Snowjob is at it again.

[dogday]

7. Tony needs a Road Trip To Iraq nt

[jimshoes]

25. Here's a photo

of things going just fine on his last trip to Baghdad.

[dogday]

26. Wearing his casual wear I see

Yep no problems here.....

[alstephenson]

33. Caption Snow: "I think I just wet myself!" eom

[donco6]

8. I predicted it. Lots of people predicted it.

We even wrote about it and put it in print. We knew racing across the desert would be nothing. We knew taking Baghdad would be nothing (I mean - did anyone but ME see those pathetic old men running around the city with some old rifles?)

We also predicted the chaos we see today.

So what the hell Tony? Just how stupid are you people?

[Kagemusha]

9. Coming to a Daily Show segment near you

and soon!

[GeorgeGist]

10. And as any self-respecting ...

redneck will tell you, 'the Civil War ain't over'.... And they're right.

[EndElectoral]

11. The man is certifiable

[Disturbed]

14. Snow Job studied Baghdad Bob carefully.

:crazy:

[Tin Man]

12. :spew: :spew: :spew: :spew: :spew: :spew: :spew: :spew:

:spray: :spray: :spray: :spray: :spray: :spray: :spray:

[The_Casual_Observer]

13. "All I'm saying is that" it isn't 6 days, 6 weeks or 6 months. It's 4 years, buddy.

And pretty soon it will be 6 years. Snow isn't converting anybody to his way of thinking. THe ship is sinking.

[sandrakae]

15. THIS GUY IS SMOKING FUCKING CRACK.

[Tin Man]

17. ...crack actually helps develop the brain's *lie center*

:rofl:

[bullimiami]

16. nope. all went just fine. bush friends power increased,

war profiteering at an all time high, privitization and plunder of iraq still on track, planned domination of ME oil resources proceeding as planned. Still getting away with robbery and murder.

[uppityperson]

19. Never, thought I'd say it, but I miss Scotty.

sNOw=Baghdad Bob reincarnated. Amazing.

[Tin Man]

23. Scotty had obvious "tells" when lying - Snow doesn't

of course, Snow is lying 100% of the time, so we're really not sure if he's exhibiting any "tells" or not.

[Lautremont]

29. His tell, to borrow an old gag,

is that his lips are moving.

[Tin Man]

30. True dat!

:rofl:

[catgirl]

20. That's right, we won the war. Remember?

Georgie standing in his uniform declaring victory?

What amazes me is they get away with all this crap. Er,
got away with it until now...Waxman has been waiting in
the shadows for the moment to attack. And the moment
is here. Get out the popcorn.

[Cabcere]

21. "I'm not sure anything went wrong" - WTF?!

You're "not sure anything went wrong," Tony? Well, I am. I'm damn sure that there's very little RIGHT about 3,133 dead U.S. soldiers, at least 23,530 more wounded, and tens and possibly hundreds of thousands of Iraqis dead or wounded in this ridiculous war. Saddam Hussein =/= Al Qaeda, there were no WMDs, and thousands of people have died or have been seriously injured because of LIES. I'm pretty damn sure a LOT went wrong. :grr:

[soothsayer]

22. hey, how's that easy takeover of bagdhad working out?

[Jagger69]

24. Joseph Goebbels

Would be proud of Tony Snow. He's a talking head who is simply another one of Bush's mindless minions.

[LonelyLRLiberal]

27. I'd love to just slap the smirk off Snow's face.

Somehow he seems to think everything is just one big funny video war-game where real people are not getting killed and maimed. His attitude reflects the mind-set of his bosses.

[gratefultobelib]

28. Unbelievable.

[BootinUp]

31. whistling past the graveyard(s). n/t

[HCE SuiGeneris]

32. Quack quack quack...

*sigh*x(

[noise]

34. Wars are more difficult

when the CIVILIAN command betrays the military.

The "we acted in good faith" argument is BS.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

35. Oh for Jeebus' sake.

it is well-known by anybody who has studied any war that war plans immediately become moot upon the first contact with the enemy.

It's also well known to anybody who has studied any war that that phrase stands as a warning against OVERLY OPTIMISTIC PLANNING.

[knight_of_the_star]

36. Depends on the pre-war assessment

No plan may survive contact with the enemy, but it sure helps to have an actual plan that's more involved than, "We'll liberate the country and everything will fall into place."