Verbatim: Apr. 28, 2003

"It is not like a treasure hunt, where you just run around looking everywhere hoping you find something." DONALD RUMSFELD, Secretary of Defense, on the search for chemical and biological weapons in Iraq

"Wow, this looks like Las Vegas." TYRONE FRANKLIN, Marine captain, on Saddam Hussein's abandoned 1,000-acre compound in Tikrit, which includes monuments, artificial lakes and palaces

"[Vietnam] took too long...If President Bush had been President, we would have won." JAY GARNER, retired lieutenant general charged with leading the effort to rebuild Iraq

"You'd have to go back centuries, to the Mongol invasion of Baghdad in 1258, to find...

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