Happy fifth anniversary, Dick

Remember when?

Tomorrow marks the fifth anniversary Dick Cheney's laughable prediction that our troops "would be greeted as liberators" in Iraq. On March 16, 2003, this is what Cheney said, with a straight face, on Meet the Press with Tim Russert:

CHENEY: Now, I think things have gotten so bad inside Iraq, from the standpoint of the Iraqi people, my belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.

From Think Progress:

That same month — in March 2003 — McCain was parroting the Bush administration's rosy talk, repeating on many occasions that "we will be greeted as liberators." Cheney and the administration ignored numerous pre-war intelligence analyses that warned "that the US would face armed resistance from Iraqis following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime."

Talk about a collective Ma Bad from the boobs in this administration, and the man who wants to succeed it, John Sidney McCain III.

This is yet another example of the Recency Effect, which in short means that the American people don't typically have a memory span that goes back five years. In our pop culture nation, attitudes and political winds shift quickly, and misdeeds and whoppers like the one above are sometimes forgotten quickly.

Not this year.

It wasn't so long ago that McCain was one in a long line of Bush administration parrots, serving, in effect, as the White House spokesman on a variety of issues, from the Bush tax cuts to the War in Iraq.

More on the tax cuts in a bit.