Cheney: U.S. 'getting things right in Iraq'

[sabra]

Source: ChicagoTrib SwampPolitics Blog

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – Vice President Dick Cheney, lacing an address in support of the president’s Iraq war strategy with repeated allusions to the terrorism of Sept. 11 and a relentless enemy which the United States still faces, came to the hometown and gravesite of a former president whom he had once served with a stern message.

“Tough work lies ahead,’’ Cheney said of the war in Iraq. “But the evidence from the theater of war 6,000 miles away is beyond question: The troop surged has achieved solid results, and in a relatively short period of time….

“Ladies and gentlemen,’’ the vice president told an invited audience in a theater at the Gerald R. Ford Museum, “the United States and our coalition are getting things right in Iraq.’’

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“In any event,’’ he said, “President Bush will make his decisions based on the national interest and nothing else – not by artificial measures, not by political calculations, and not by poll numbers.’’

Read more: http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2007/09/cheney_us_getting_things_right.html#more

[BigDDem]

1. His grasp of reality is right up there

with those convinced that DK will get the Democratic nomination.

[OnyxCollie]

8. And with those who believe voting for an "electable" candidate

will make a damn bit of difference.

[TwilightGardener]

2. I love it when they say Chimpy won't make his decisions based

on politicians and polls--in other words, based on the wishes of the American people and their representatives in Congress. If there was any doubt we have morphed into a monarchy or a dictatorship, this should erase it.

[Avalux]

3. Sweet. In other words - "Fuck you America" -

"national interest" = corporate interest.

[rodeodance]

5. past, present and Future.

[gratuitous]

16. That jumped out at me, too

What "national interest" is being served by emptying our Treasury and crippling our military? Oh, the checks are still rolling in from Halliburton. I see.

[and-justice-for-all]

4. What an ignorant, self-righteous asshole..

Fuck Cheney and the dumb one too!

[Swede]

6. He should have added - "this time" - even though he's wrong again.

nt

[sallyseven]

7. Wouldn't you like to see his

tongue fall right out of his mouth? At least it would stop the lies.

[Baby Snooks]

9. The colonization of Iraq

What Bush and now Cheney are conveniently avoiding discussion of is the apparent plan to have a permanent military base in Iraq which according to some will allow the US to "maintain" a balance of power in the Middle East. To protect "our" interests. The only interests being protected are "their" interests.

Only a fool would believe they ever intended to completely withdraw. One need only look at the size of the embassy compound in Baghdad to realize we have, in essence, colonized Iraq.

[DemKR]

10. oh ok is the insurgency in its last throes again? F*CK U !

[ladywnch]

12. exactly! I remember hearing 'getting things right in Iraq' about 4 years ago.

if things get any "righter" there we'll have another Beruit on our hands!

[tabasco]

11. This from the guy who said we'd be greeted as liberators.

Chicken Dickie belongs in jail for his role in launching this illegal war for profits.

[Bitwit1234]

13. What is all this fantasty about making a decision

based on the national interest and nothing else. Damn I thought 80% of the people in this country want the war to end.....does the 20% that want to wage war represent the national interest. What in the hell kind of "brain" do they have.

[truthisfreedom]

14. "Getting all of the oil out of Iraq."

By slant-drilling from Kuwait?

[Highway61]

15. Heading to Central Command is he?

Admiral Fallon is the HEAD of Central Command and being that he TOTALLY disagreed with Petraeus and called him an "ass-kissing chicken shit"

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39235

you don't think Cheney is gonna go there to squeeze the admiral's gonads into keeping quiet do you? Naw, what am I thinking? He'd never do that.:sarcasm:

[Eurobabe]

17. Fuck Cheney and the bird shot he rode in on. n/t

[trusty elf]

18. Buckfushot

[arewenotdemo]

19. “President Bush will make his decisions based on the national interest,

and I'll continue to decide what is in the national interest."

Five Deferment Dick

[trusty elf]

20. Bush and Dick, Rock-Solid Conservatives

[defendandprotect]

21. Cheney is insane -- and maybe some in the GOP know this -- ????