“The Gulf War in the 1990s lasted five days on the ground. I can’t tell you if the use of force in Iraq today would last five days, or five weeks or five months, but it certainly isn’t going to last any longer than that.”
-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Nov. 14, 2002.

President Bush took another four years before he made Rumsfeld step down. And Bush now wonders why this country is weary of his unnecessary war.

Update 4/5/2007: It’s funny that a few months later, Donald Rumsfeld changed his estimate from 5 days/weeks to six days/weeks. Here’s a short clip of that absurd prediction, made on February 7, 2003:

For transcript, click here.