The Iraqi people will figure out what the government of Iraq will do.

The Iraqi people will ultimately decide on a constitution, the Iraqi people will be the ones to decide what the form of that government might be. There will be an interim, meaning temporary, short-lived authority of some kind....

--Donald Rumsfeld, May 4, 2003

Find this embarrassing blast from the past plus more here. Nice work by Leah, one of Atrios's guest bloggers.