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Originally Posted by strandinthewind
The mission was accomplished  He clearly was not referring to the entire rebuilding of Iraq, which you seem to want to associate that banner with. It had not even begun to occur yet
And McCain's statement "it grieves me so much that we had not told the American people how tough and difficult this task would be" - is a red herring because he refers to the comments lauding the success of the initial invasion and ignore the consistent warning about how hard it would be as evidence by the July 2003 article, etc.
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I think he's looking at the overall picture

And I clearly remember Rummy and Cheney making "stuff happens" sort of comments.