Dick Cheney, Flip-Flopper

In 1992, Dick Cheney, as SecDef explained why Bush Senior didn't invade Iraq:

Of interest, Cheney's speech was made 18 months after Desert Storm was over, which means in 1992, Cheney predicted that had we'd invaded Iraq and taken over the country, we'd still be there, BOGGED DOWN, trying to GOVERN IRAQ.

Fast forward to March 2003, and the Bush administration story is "6 weeks and we'll be out".

Three years after that its "No one could have guessed we'd still be there by now"

dclary said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beating_a_dead_horse

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Hm, well, the Bushites certainly beat a dead horse about WMD's, but I think the idiom to best describe them would be:

buy a pig in a poke: To buy something without inspection, thereby creating an opportunity for fraud. Canonical: unethical farmer places a barn-yard cat in a burlap bag (poke) and sells it sight-unseen to another, claiming it contains a piglet.

By hook or by crook : by any means possible

Open up a can of worms:To create a situation that is hard to deal with, to get involved with something that is discomforting, hard to resolve, or not easily escaped

Can't _____ oneself out of a wet paper bag : Woefully unable to perform the task in hand

Castle in the air : A plan that is impractical, illogical and not likely to work

Cry wolf : To raise a false alarm

A day late and a dollar short : Too little, too late

Go off half-cocked : To do something, typically violent or disruptive, prematurely.

I believe its because the NeoConChickeHawks, fail to grasp that:
The devil's in the details : When a task sounds simple in concept, but carrying it out proves much more difficult.


Perhaps because they:
Drink the Kool-Aid : To follow blindly without thought, often to one's own demise.

Or they didn't want to discuss the:
Elephant in the room : The problem or situation immediately obvious to all, but spoken of by none.


But the certainly were drawn to Iraq:
Like a moth to a flame : Strongly attracted to something, regardless of likely negative consequence

And they definitely
Screwed the pooch : To make a grievous error

I can only hope that with the 2006 election:
The chickens have come home to roost : The deleterious consequences of your previous actions have now become apparent

And now they looking at having to
Eat crow : To suffer humiliation and/or reluctantly admit defeat.

And at least some of them should be:
Hauled over the coals : To harshly scold, reprimand or interrogate someone about something they did.