The Admin's Lies about Rebuilding Iraq: Better or Worse than the WMD Lies

Here's four quotes that I dug up in the last few minutes, is the fact that they were willfully blind about this better or worse than the WMD shenanigans?


"Most of the Iraqi bureaucracy, and most of the Iraqi infrastructure, will be left intact,” a State Department official assured a NEWSWEEK reporter just before the war. An occupation might not have to last more than “30 to 60 days.”

"We’re dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon,” Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz told the Senate a week after the invasion started in March.

"There's just no reason that this can't be an affordable endeavor," said White House budget director Mitch Daniels.

"I don't know that there is much reconstruction to do," Rumsfeld told reporters (4/10/03)