I'd like to "embed" some hard nosed Brits in the White House press core. But you can't accuse Ari of not being prepared.
Q              Ari, in light of what you just said about the
               President being careful not to put a timetable 
               on it, how does he feel about the Vice President
               saying that it will take weeks, not months? 

MR. FLEISCHER: And then what did the Vice President say
               in the next sentence right after he said that? 

Q              I don't have that with me. 

MR. FLEISCHER: He said, I think it will go relatively quickly,
               but we can't count on that. He said, weeks rather
               than -- he was asked, weeks, months. He said,
               weeks rather than months. And then his next
               sentence was, "There is always the possibility of
               complications that you can't anticipate." And,
               obviously, one week into the battle, I don't know
               that anybody can draw any conclusions about
               duration to judge whether the Vice President is
               precise or not, it's accurate or not. 
But if this is the best he could find, they don't have much to stand on.
- mark 3-29-2003 11:08 am





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