Doonesbury.com's The War in Quotes
By David Stanford and G. B. Trudeau
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THAT WAS THEN
"Once you've got Baghdad, it's not clear what you do with it. It's not clear what kind of government you put in place. How much credibility is that government going to have if it's set up by the U.S. military?" --Dick Cheney, 1991
MIND-SET
"F*** Saddam. We're taking him out." --George W. Bush, to three U.S. senators, March 2002
WMD
"If the president wants to go to war, our job is to find the intelligence to allow him to do so." --Alan Foley, director, CIA Weapons Intelligence, to staff, December 2002
THE PLAN
"There was no guidance for restoring order in Baghdad, creating an interim government, hiring government and essential services employees, and ensuring that the judicial system was operational." --3rd Infantry Division's official after-action review
INSURGENCY
"I really qualify it as militarily insignificant. They are very small. They are very random. They are very ineffective." --Maj. Gen. Ray Odierno, June 18, 2003
REALITY
"Does [the Iraq war strategy] make America safer?" --Sen. John Warner
"I don't know, actually." --Gen. David Petraeus, in Senate testimony, September 11, 2007
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The Sandbox: Dispatches from Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan
"We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create
our own reality. We’re history’s actors, and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."
—Bush adviser, summer 2002
Contents
Introduction by G. B. Trudeau
The Players
Humility
Foresight
That Was Then
In the Name of the Father
Mind-set
Powell
Rice
Where’s Osama?
Love/Hate
The Al-Qaeda Connection
WMD
Marketing
Friends
The Armey You Have
Pushback
The Threat
Time
The U.N.
Duration
Troop Levels
Wolfowitz
Feith
Dancing in the Streets
The War Begins
Victory
The Army You Have
Looting
The Plan
The Hunt
Insurgency
Gitmo
Saddam Captured
The Hunt Ends
Progress
Abu Ghraib
Further Progress
Civil War
Fallujah I
Fallujah II
Torture
Waterboarding
The Mission
Stepping Up
Rumsfeld
Where We Fight
The Surge
Turning Points
Cost
Me, Too
The Tone in Washington
Exit
Reality
Editor’s Note
Introduction
by G. B. Trudeau
In the fall of 2007, four and a half years into the Iraq War, I was struck by how Doonesbury.com’s daily Say What? feature had inadvertently created a remarkable collection of quotes that, when viewed in sequence, tracked the essential story of the war’s unfolding.
Bush-watchers like Slate’s Jacob Weisberg have spent years archiving the forty-third president’s innumerable Bushisms,
the strange and surprising things he did not mean to say. These can be revealing, and sometimes alarming, but The War in Quotes focuses on a different part of the record—words that were deliberately spoken, not only by President George W. Bush, but also by the core group who helped plan and execute the war, and by others who have been involved in various ways.
Building on our initial set of quotes, our site’s Duty Officer, David Stanford, and I combed through the numerous books on the war that have been written by participants, journalists, historians, and biographers, gathering more, and roamed the Net as well. We also generated a timeline as a reminder of all that has transpired over the past seven years.
We ended up with an impressive surfeit of material. The first rough version of the book, laid out on the floor of the studio, wound from room to room and down a long hallway. By rigorous tightening the text has been reduced to its essential core.
It speaks for itself.
The Players
img_20.jpgGeorge W. Bush—President of the United States
img_20.jpgGeorge H. W. Bush—President of the United States, 1989–1993
img_21.jpgDick Cheney—Vice president of the United States
img_22.jpgDonald Rumsfeld—Secretary of defense, 2001–2006
img_23.jpgCondoleezza Rice—National security adviser, 2001–2005; secretary of state, 2005–present
img_24.jpgColin Powell—Secretary of state, 2001–2005
img_25.jpgPaul Wolfowitz—Deputy secretary of defense, 2001–2005
img_26.jpgRichard Perle—Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee, 1997–2004
img_27.jpgDouglas Feith—Under secretary of defense for policy, 2001–2005
img_27.jpgPaul Bremer—Second director of reconstruction and humanitarian assistance in Iraq, 2003–2004
img_20.jpgTony Blair—Prime minister of Great Britain, 1997–2007
img_20.jpgAri Fleischer—White House press secretary, 2001–2003
img_20.jpgDick Armey—House majority leader, 1995–2003
img_20.jpgGen. Richard B. Myers—Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, 2001–2005
img_20.jpgGen. David Petraeus—Commanding general, Multi-National Force—Iraq
img_20.jpgJohn McCain—U.S. senator
Humility
"I’m going to be judicious as to how I use