Blue Skies...

Blue Skies...
"Mission Accomplished" - George W. Bush on the Iraq war, May 2, 2003

...Smilin' at Me...
"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." - Vice President Dick Cheney on the Iraq insurgency, June 20, 2005

...Nothin' but Blue Skies...
"I don’t use the phrase guerrilla war is because there isn’t one, and it would be a misunderstanding and a miscommunication to you and to the people of the country and the world." - Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on the Iraq insurgency, June 30, 2003

...Do I see...
"What you have...is a new consensus between the universal principles of democracy and human rights and Iraqi traditions in Islam. And in that, it is an agreement, a compact between the various communities and it sets a new paradigm for this part of the world, a reconciliation, a consensus between the various forces and tendencies that are at work here in Iraq." - U.S. Ambassodor To Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad on the Iraq Constitution, Meet the Press, August 29, 2005