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In August 2003, with concerns about the insurgency growing, Bush told reporters: "There are some who feel like … the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is bring them on. … We've got the force necessary to deal with the security situation."
On Nov. 1, 2003, a day after the National Intelligence Estimate was distributed, Bush said in his weekly radio address: "Some of the killers behind these attacks are loyalists of the Saddam regime who seek to regain power and who resent Iraq's new freedoms. Others are foreigners who have traveled to Iraq to spread fear and chaos. … The terrorists and the Baathists hope to weaken our will. Our will cannot be shaken."
As recently as May 2005, Cheney told a television interviewer: "I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency."
White, who worked at the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, said of the administration: "They've gone through various excuse phases."
Now, he said, "The levels of resistance are pretty much as high as they were a year ago."
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