It's a difficult thing today to be informed about our government even without all the secrecy.

And it is not knowable if force will be used, but if it is to be used, it is not knowable how long that conflict would last. It could last, you know, six days,…

From the DOD News Briefing following the fall of Baghdad, April 11, 2003:

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 th…