Baghdad = The Last 15 Minutes of 'Saving Private Ryan'

This may be old news to many here, but yesterday I heard Sen. Kennedy in Wolf's Situation(s) Room refer to the folly of the US taking Baghdad as "the last 5 minutes of the movie 'Saving Private Ryan'. I also remembered him saying it a week ago on MTP.

What I DIDN'T realize: Kennedy originally said this back in 2002!

Oct 8, 2002

Many believe that our armed forces may need to occupy Baghdad, which has over 5 million residents. Testifying before the Armed Services Committee on September 23, General Joseph Hoar, former Commander in Chief of the United States Central Command, discussed the potential horrors of urban warfare. He said, "In urban warfare, you could run through battalions a day at a time. All our advantages of command and control, technology, mobility…are in part given up and you are working with corporals and sergeants and young men fighting street to street. It looks like the last 15 minutes of the movie Saving Private Ryan."

http://kennedy.senate.gov/~kennedy/statements/02/10/2002A10457.html