Cheney Calls War on Terror Unpredictable [View All]

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By SUZANNE GAMBOA, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 43 minutes ago



WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney, standing with veterans to mark the 75th anniversary of the government agency created to serve them, said Thursday "we cannot predict the length or the course of the war on terror."

"We have no illusions about the difficulty of engaging enemies that dwell in the shadows, target the innocent, and recognize neither the laws of warfare, nor standards of morality," Cheney said. Nonetheless, Cheney said, the United States will "persevere and prevail."

Joined on stage by veterans from World War I through the Iraq war, Cheney was featured speaker at the ceremony marking the diamond anniversary of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

On July 21, 1930, President Hoover signed an executive order to create the Veterans Administration. Former President Ronald Reagan elevated the agency to Cabinet level and made it the Department of Veterans Affairs.

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