The Bush Administration crystal ball has been in disrepair for almost six years now. Here are some of the more memorable prognostications that failed to bear fruit. Were these the lies spoken by Death Eaters, or are they the muggle divinations of Hogwarts dropouts who failed their O.W.L. examinations?
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“We're going to find those evildoers, those barbaric people who attacked our country, and we're going to hold them accountable."
- George W. Bush, September 17, 2001

"I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, that they would try to use an airplane as a missile -- a hijacked airplane as a missile.”
- Condoleeza Rice, May 17, 2002

“Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.”
- Dick Cheney, Aug. 26, 2002

“Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for the production of biological weapons.”
- George W. Bush, Sept. 12, 2002

“No terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world than the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.”
- Donald Rumsfeld, Sept. 19, 2002

“If he declares he has none, then we will know that Saddam Hussein is once again misleading the world.”
- Ari Fleischer, Dec. 2, 2002

"It's a slam-dunk case.”
- George Tenet, December 21, 2002

"It's hard to conceive that it would take more forces to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq than it would take to conduct the war itself and to secure the surrender of Saddam’s security forces and his army. Hard to imagine."
- Paul Wolfowitz, February 27, 2003

"The idea that it would take several hundred thousand U.S. forces [to secure Iraq] I think is far off the mark."
- Donald Rumsfeld, February 28, 2003

“We believe he [Hussein] has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons.”
- Dick Cheney, March 16, 2003

"My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.”
- Dick Cheney, March 16, 2003

“There is no doubt that the regime of Saddam Hussein possesses weapons of mass destruction. As this operation continues, those weapons will be identified, found, along with the people who have produced them and who guard them.”
- Gen. Tommy Franks, March 22, 2003

"There's a lot of money to pay for this that doesn't have to be U.S. taxpayer money, and it starts with the assets of the Iraqi people... We're dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon."
- Paul Wolfowitz, March 27, 2003

“We know where they [WMD] are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.”
- Donald Rumsfeld, March 30, 2003

"Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed."
- George W. Bush, May 2, 2003

“Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.”
- George W. Bush, May 1, 2003

“If anyone in this administration was involved in it [outing Valerie Plame], they would no longer be in this administration.”
- Scott McClellan, September 29, 2003

“Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires -- a wiretap requires a court order. Nothing has changed, by the way.”
- George W. Bush, April 20, 2004

“We are blessed to live in hopeful times when the promise of liberty is spreading across the world."
- George W. Bush, January 18, 2005

"The level of activity that we see today from a military standpoint, I think, will clearly decline. I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency."
- Dick Cheney, June 20, 2005

"I don't think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees.”
- George W. Bush, September 1, 2005

“Well, I think if you look at what actually happened, I remember on Tuesday morning picking up newspapers and I saw headlines, 'New Orleans Dodged the Bullet.' “
- Michael Chertoff, September 4, 2005

“We do not torture.”
- George W. Bush, November 7, 2005