Bush administration turning points

Thanks for distributorcapny for the following.

The essay is called "The Turning Point."

May 1, 2003: Bush said, "Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed."

July 7, 2003: Douglas Feith, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, said: "This month will be a political turning point for Iraq."

July 22, 2003: The White House said: "While there is still much work to do in Iraq, the Iraqi people can see progress each day toward a better and more prosperous future for their country."

November 6, 2003: Bush observed: "We've reached another great turning point..."

June 16, 2004: Bush claimed, "A turning point will come two weeks from today."

July 17, 2004: Neocon columnist Max Boot said, "Despite the Negative Reaction by Much of the Media, U.S. Marines Did a Good Job in Fallujah, a Battle That Might Prove a Turning Point."

June 28, 2004: Bush wrote on a napkin, "Let freedom reign!"

February 2, 2005: Donald Rumself said: "On January 30th in Iraq, the world witnessed an important moment in the global struggle against tryanny, a movement that historians might one day call a major turning point."

March 7, 2005: William Kristol wrote, "[T]he Iraqi election of January 30, 2005... will turn out to have been a genuine turning point."

May 30, 2005: Dick Cheney said on Meet the Press, "The level of activity that we see today from a military standpoint, I think, will clearly decline. I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency."

December 15, 2005: Sen. Joe Lieberman said, "The last two weeks have been critically important and I believe may be seen as a turning point in the war in Iraq and the war on terrorism."

December 18, 2005: Dick Cheney, while conceding "the level of violence has continued," told ABC News, "I do believe that when we look back on this period of time, 2005 will have been the turning point...."

May 1, 2006: Bush claimed the formation of a new Iraqi government was "a turning point."

May 20, 2006: Bush said, "We believe this is a turning point for the Iraqi citizens, and it's a new chapter in our partnership."

June 9, 2006: Bus said, "Zarqawi's death is a severe blow to al Qaeda. It's a victory in the global war on terror, and it is an opportunity for Iraq's new government to turn the tide of this struggle."

January 7, 2007: Senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman recently returned from a fact-finding mission to Iraq...in light of a possible change for U.S. strategy in Iraq, they called the recent events a probably turning point.

September 12, 2007: McCain said "the next six months are going to be critical."

March 17, 2007: McCain claimed that the U.S. had finally reached a genuine turning point in Iraq and that his faith in the surge was (once again) vindicated. "We are succeeding. And we can succeed and American casualties overall are way down. That is in direct contradiction to predictions made by the Democrats and particularly Senator Obama and Senator Clinton. I will be glad to stake my campaign on the fact that this has succeeded and the American people appreciate it."


Oh, stop laughing. This is serious stuff!