Cheney has no regrets over Iraq invasion

[sabra]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1766794,00.html

Cheney has no regrets over Iraq invasion

Three years into the war that has come to define the legacy of the Bush administration Dick Cheney, the vice-president, has said he has no regrets about the decision to invade Iraq.

Mr Cheney's refusal to admit to doubts about going to war highlights his isolation from an administration which has demonstrated a degree of candour about Iraq, as well as the rest of the country where only 37% approve of the White House's handling of the conflict. Mr Cheney has even less support; his approval ratings have dipped below 20%. But in an interview to appear in June's Vanity Fair magazine, he remained a picture of certitude.

Asked whether in his "darkest nights" he ever doubted the decision to go to war, he said: "I think what we've done has been what needed to be done."
Mr Cheney was unmoved by postwar disclosures about the use of hyped and faulty intelligence to make the case for the invasion - some of which has been tied directly to his office.

He said: "In the end, you can argue about the quality of the intelligence and so forth, but ... I look at that whole spectrum of possibilities and options, and I think we did the right thing."

[onehandle]

1. Have a country fried steak.

Have ten.

[donco6]

8. LOL! Couldn't have said it better. eom

[Jim Sagle]

9. With creampuffs for dessert.

[teknomanzer]

32. Shit, just eat a bucket of lard already...

[rodeodance]

29. Lynn watches his diet

[bullimiami]

2. no soul no regrets.

[saigon68]

45. He is the Biggest War Criminal

This idiot couldn't find his way out of a shower stall without a helpng hand

Even though he signed off on it he is and was CLUELESS



CHENEY however is the True Criminal

[tatertop]

3. What the heck, he made tons of money

and will cme put of it without so much as a sunburn

[IndianaGreen]

4. C'mon, this man is a sociopath

He has no empathy, no regrets, and thinks himself more clever than anyone else.

[Mr_Spock]

5. It's like Satan saying he's comfortable torturing people

what'd we expect the cretin to say?

[KainNero]

6. Yeah, he's laughing all the way to the bank

if he could actually physically laugh.

So all the mistakes made and the lives lost and not one regret?

[Lindacooks]

20. That was my first thought too. Why should he regret making himself

richer? He hasn't suffered one tiny little bit.

[teknomanzer]

33. All the dirty war profits in the world...

won't buy Buckshot Cheney a soul.

[LibDemAlways]

23. He's made a shitload of $$ off this nightmare.

All Cheney cares about is how his bank account has grown as a result. The death and destruction mean nothing to him. It's all a means to an end.

[LeftistGorilla]

7. why would he?

It was no sweat off his back....

[daleo]

10. He didn't regret shooting a guy in the face either

He probably thinks Iraqis should just apologize to him.

[bdamomma]

11. cheney is a fucked up/evil man.

[blonndee]

12. "we've done what has needed to be done" ?!?!?!?

YOU haven't done SHIT, you pampered, fat, elitist neocon piece of shit! Our troops are on their 2nd, 3rd, and 4th deployments in service of your fucked-up neocon agenda. You NEVER did shit to serve this country and you can suck it, as far as I'm concerned.

Sorry for the rant. I'm missing my soldier.

[lumpy]

21. Hear Hear !

I echo your sentiments. Cheney is a warped soul who shows no regret for the Iraqi people who have been killed, maimed, displaced, and in despair. For what ?

[bluerum]

13. He has no regrets over shooting his friend in the face either.

[genieroze]

14. Cheney has no regrets over Iraq invasion, I bet Hellaburton agrees with

him.

[magellan]

15. Quality of the pre-war intelligence = quality of the Bush** administration

Both reek and should never have seen the light of day.

[IDemo]

16. I believe, I believe, I can lie! n/t

[Zorra]

17. Maybe life in prison will help this war criminal reflect further

on his evil deeds, and eventually feel some remorse for the scores of thousands of innocent people he was complicit in maiming and murdering for no good reason whatsoever.

[young_at_heart]

18. His refusal to admit to doubts is very revealing

Bush has the same personality defect and our country is paying a very high price.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

19. All his cardiac surgeries, plus all his meds,

are known to provoke personality changes, not for the better. At a minimum, there's always the occasion of depression after even a simply bypass surgery.

Personally, I think the fucker is crazy as a bedbug and completely out of his mind. That's a clinical diagnosis, by the way. I think he's impaired to the point where he's not even legally competent.

And he's our President.................

[Bhaisahab]

22. Gollum slips out of his cave again

holding the broken country of Iraq in his slimy hands and muttering to all the doubters - "its MINE! ALL MINE! MY PRECIOUSSSSS!"

Dick Cheney - an asshole that is proof enough that there is no god. only satan.


edited for spelling

[Media_Lies_Daily]

24. Blood runs in torrents from this monster.

[rpannier]

25. Yeah. I wouldn't either

if my stock portfolio looked like his.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

26. Vanity Fair's running some really questionable photos with that article.

:evilgrin:

[Skittles]

27. f***ing chickenhawk bastard

I hope he rots in hell

[Imagevision]

28. Cheney has no regrets over Iraq - it's his cash cow...!

[rodeodance]

30. There was a time when school kids could look up to the office of the

presidency and v. presidency. No more.

[Demeter]

31. That's Because You Haven't Been Indicted Yet, Dick!

You'll change your tune soon enough. Better do some scales to warm up.

[Guaranteed]

34. Is it Wednesday already? nt

[midnight]

35. Cheney has a bank account instead of a brain.

How else could one account for his lack of critical thinking skills. He possesses none. How could he be capable of such thoughtfulness. He can't.

[BigDDem]

36. Meanwhile

the insurgents are still in their "last throes" - a year later.

[0007]

37. The mothers & fathers of the dead troops and the troops that

lost parts of their bodies all say to Cheney.
Drop Dead

[rodeodance]

38. he really is a hardnose.

[leveymg]

39. No remorse for his crimes? That's an aggravating circumstance.

At the penalty phase, that can make all the difference.

[KansDem]

40. Charlie Manson probably has no regrets over what he did either

I think what we've done has been what needed to be done.


No doubt in his mind he still thinks what he did was right and justified...

It's a twisted world.

[brentspeak]

41. Why should Oil Can Cheney regret the invasion?

He didn't have to risk his butt because of it!

[Frank Cannon]

42. Cheney has no regrets about shooting a man in Reno...

just to watch him die.

Cheney has absolutely no regrets about anything. That would require a set of morals and/or a sense of shame.

[Peter Frank]

43. Which begs the question - What's next?

[gratuitous]

44. It's not like any of his children died

And he's made a bucketload of money off the deal. What's to regret? The loss of other people's life? Get real! Record deficits? Not his concern. Dark nights? You're talking about folks who have a conscience or a soul; doesn't apply to Deadeye Dick.

[shanti]

46. of course he doesn't

he's making nuff $$$ out of it. :grr: :mad:

[Jack Rabbit]

47. Jack Rabbit does not regret calling for Cheney's trial as a war criminal

/s/


My mark placed here with assistance from
the University of Kansas

[tired of the right]

48. I suspect that in the dictionary

you will find Cheney's picture next to the words chicken hawk. He certainly managed to stay out of harm's way when young and now has no qualms about sending others to possible death. I would suggest he is depraved as well as delusional.

[MrSlayer]

49. Why would he? He's made his fortune even larger.

He couldn't care less.

[antonialee839]

50. Why should he? It's not like he has to go there and fight.

[6000eliot]

51. Worse yet, the bastard has no shame!