Dick Cheney said “weeks, not months” when asked by Tim Russert how long it would take to reach total victory in Iraq. But this is the least of a series of comments the administration made to sell the war to the American public in the days before the war began, as revealed by this article in Salon. (paid subscription content, sorry).

Bangladesh is sending humanitarian aid to Iraq–$2 million dollars worth. As a percentage of GDP, that dwarfs US aid to anyboduy.