If you think you remember that we were promised a quick, easy war [3], your memory is not faulty. Eric Alterman has gone to the trouble of assembling some of those recent quotes in which Bush administration officials and pundits predicted, not that war is hell, but that it would be heaven. "Support for Saddam ... will collapse at the first whiff of gunpowder," predicted Richard Perle [4]. The war will be "a cakewalk [5]," said Ken Adelman. According to Donald Rumsfeld [6], "it will not be long." And Dick Cheney [7] said the Iraqi people "will welcome as liberators the United States."