Jules Witcover hopes that the Bush Administration will embrace its recent small steps away from the optimistic bluster characterizing its statements in the weeks and months leading up to the invasion of Iraq. As he notes:
But the administration cannot honestly refute that it sought at the outset to convey the impression that its invasion of Iraq would be a lightning bolt achieving a swift "regime change."They key word in that sentence is "honestly."
It may be time to start collecting Bush Administration statements about how our troops could be expected to be greeted as liberators and scores of Iraqi military units would surrender.
We must not allow the White House to revise history or blame the media for the optimistic message they sent to help sell this war to the American people.
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