On March 16, 2003, just days before the Iraqi invasion, Vice President Dick Cheney said on Meet the Press, “I really do believe we will be greeted as liberators.” He wasn’t the only one with such optimism. Paul Wolfowitz, Assistant Secretary of Defense, believed it too: “Like the people of France in the 1940s, the Iraqi people view us as their hoped for liberators.”
But now, over a year and a half after the invasion of Iraq, some left-wing partisans are starting to question whether the Administration really knew what it was getting us into.