Over the weekend the Administration scrambled to convince everyone that they had never said the war would go quickly or be a cakewalk, even though Dick Cheney had said on national television, “I think it’ll go relatively quickly,” and Kenneth Adelman of the Pentagon Advisory Board told the Washington Post, “I believe demolishing Hussein's military power and liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk.”

Pentagon Advisory Board kingpin and captain of industry Richard Perle (who had earlier contributed such nuggets of wisdom as: “support for Saddam, including within his military organization, will collapse at the first whiff of gunpowder,” and “it will be quicker and easier than many people think. [Saddam] is far weaker than many people realize.”) apparently still has not received the memo; just yesterday he told the CBC, “I think it will be a quick war.”