3 Years

It's official: Three years in Iraq and the hits just keep on comin'.

What better way to mark this solemn anniversary than to look
back at some of the perceptive analysis offered by our well-paid
news pundits during the early days of “shock and awe.”

"I will bet you the best dinner in the gaslight
district of San Diego that military action will not
last more than a week. Are you willing to take that
wager?"
(Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly, 1/29/03)

* * *

"We're all neo-cons now."
(MSNBC's Chris Matthews, 4/9/03)

* * *

"Over the next couple of weeks when we find the
chemical weapons this guy was amassing, the fact
that this war was attacked by the left and so the
right was so vindicated, I think, really means that
the left is going to have to hang its head for three
or four more years."
(Fox News Channel's Dick Morris, 4/9/03)

* * *

"The war was the hard part. The hard part was
putting together a coalition, getting 300,000
troops over there and all their equipment and
winning. And it gets easier. I mean, setting up a
democracy is hard, but it is not as hard as winning
a war."
(Fox News Channel's Fred Barnes, 4/10/03)

* * *

"Well, the hot story of the week is victory.... The
Tommy Franks-Don Rumsfeld battle plan, war
plan, worked brilliantly, a three-week war with
mercifully few American deaths or Iraqi civilian
deaths.... There is a lot of work yet to do, but all
the naysayers have been humiliated so far....
The final word on this is, hooray."
(Fox News Channel's Morton Kondracke, 4/12/03)

* * *

"Now that the war in Iraq is all but over, should
the people in Hollywood who opposed the
president admit they were wrong?"
(Fox News Channel's Alan Colmes, 4/25/03)

* * *

"We had controversial wars that divided the
country. This war united the country and brought
the military back."
(Newsweek's Howard Fineman--MSNBC,
5/7/03)

Howie eventually got it right, sort of.

The war has united the country, and he didn’t say exactly how the military was brought back.