Three years...And counting.

Rumsfeld, 2/7/03: "It could last six days, six weeks.
I doubt six months."

Cheney, 3/16/03: "I think it will go relatively quickly, . . . (in) weeks rather than months"

"The administration's top budget official [Mitch Daniels] estimated today that the cost of a war with Iraq could be in the range of $50 billion to $60 billion... Mr. Daniels declined to explain how budget officials had reached the $50 billion to $60 billion range for war costs..." [New York Times, 12/31/02]

“There’s a lot of money to pay for this that doesn’t have to be U.S. taxpayer money, and it starts with the assets of the Iraqi people…and on a rough recollection, the oil revenues of that country could bring between $50 and $100 billion over the course of the next two or three years…We’re dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon.” - Paul Wolfowitz, 3/27/03

Q: If your analysis is not correct, and we're not treated as liberators, but as conquerors, and the Iraqis begin to resist, particularly in Baghdad, do you think the American people are prepared for a long, costly, and bloody battle with significant American casualties?
Cheney: Well, I don't think it's likely to unfold that way, Tim, because I really do believe that we will be greeted as liberators. [Meet the Press, 3/16/03]

It is now three years into the war in Iraq, not 6 days, 6 weeks or six months.

As it stands now, nearly $350 billion has been appropriated for the war in Iraq, with $400 billion looming.

Some 2,300 US soldiers have been killed with the official tally of wounded exceeding 17.000.

No weapons of mass destruction, causus belli, have been found. The rationale for the war has morphed some 26 times.

On May 1st, 2003, George W. Bush stood on the deck of an aircraft carrier and, standing under a banner proclaiming "Mission Accomplished", stated that major combat operations were completed.

Given the grim truths of Iraq and the unrealistic predictions offered by the Bush administration, can anything else they say about Iraq be trusted?

We, the people, were lied into this war...We have been fed lies in order to justify its continuation. The Administration has consistently failed to provide any sort of strategy for rebuilding Iraq and branded those who question them on this matter as "unpatriotic".

Just his weekend, Dick Cheney defended the pre-war assertions as "realistic", when nothing could be further divorced from reality. If anything, it shows just how divorced from reality the Bush administration is.

Just how many more impeachable offenses is it going to take before the members of this Administration ARE impeached?