In early 2003 we even had bumper stickers:

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0522-09.htm
Each of us has lawn signs and bumper stickers that say "Liberate Iraq." For months, we've stood behind those words with concrete American grit and might

In May, people were getting concerned that we wouldn't pull out as soon as Iraq was 'liberated.'

I am amazed you don't remember. Of course, that could have been only here...


>>>but overall, if he touted the liberation aspect leading up to the invasion, it must have been a pretty minimal effort.
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>>Why, because it didn't register with you? Because you ignored it? It WAS in the media here. Most people focused on Colin Powell's briefing though and disregarded the rest.
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>Well, I thought I was following the news reports, but if you say it was reasonably prominent in the administrations exhortations for invading Iraq then I'll take your word for it and assume it just didn't register with me. Though I'm hard pressed to figure out why that would be. Personally I think (and again, I could be wrong) that if there, it was exceedingly minor in amongst all the other rhetoric.