Cheney says Iraq's slow recovery is Saddam's fault

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

It's certainly not your's nor the boy king's fault huh Dick?

ASSOCIATED PRESS



Jan. 21, 2005 | WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vice President Dick Cheney said Thursday that he overestimated the pace of Iraq's recovery from the U.S.-led invasion because he didn't realize the lasting devastation wrought by Saddam Hussein on his people after the first Gulf War.

Asked to name his mistakes in planning the war in Iraq, Cheney said he had not anticipated how long it would take the Iraqis to begin running their own country. Not until after Saddam was ousted did the United States realize the extent of the Iraqi leader's brutality in putting down revolt in 1991, Cheney said.

"I think the hundreds of thousands of people who were slaughtered at the time, including anybody who had the gumption to stand up and challenge him, made the situation tougher than I would have thought," he said on "The Don Imus Show" on the radio.

"I would chalk that one up as a miscalculation, where I thought things would have recovered more quickly," Cheney said.

http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2005/01/21/cheney/index.html

[DODI]

1. I thought it was Clinton's fault.

[MichiganVote]

2. Or...they just frickin' hate Americans, Cheney b/c we kill them

[Emillereid]

3. Does anyone, anywhere actually believe this lying asshole!

[ashling]

4. Thread on this today

which, as far as I am concerned, is perfectly OK. Sometimes the search function doesn't work too well, and it is not clear that some thing posted in LBN has already been posted.

Don't get me wrong, I think that this one deserves another thread, but if it had been me posting it, it would have been locked by now.

On edit:
this is just my way of registering my feelings about this policy .

[pinniped]

5. These assholes should be banished to Iraq as sentence for their...

crimes against the people of Iraq.

FU vp creep.

[purduejake]

6. This surprise coming from the guy...

who said Iraq would be a quagmire if we took Baghdad during the first Gulf war. Talk about flip flops.

[spanone]

7. What a fat-assed lying pig.

FU dick cheney

[The_Casual_Observer]

8. True evil genius was required to make that twist!

Only guys like david frum can twist causal connections like that!

[VegasWolf]

9. Why does Cheney hate America? n/t

[Moderator]

10. duplicate topic

discuss here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1167704