This morning on Fox News Sunday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was asked if “the Bush administration fairly [can] be criticized for failing to level with the American people about how long and difficult this commitment will be?”

Rice responded: The administration, I think, has said to the American people that it is a generational commitment to Iraq.

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As Think Progess points out: That’s not true. To build support for the war the administration told the American people that the conflict in Iraq will be short and affordable. Read a laundry list of their statements here.