Cheney: Iraq will be 'enormous success story'

[warrior1]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/06/23/cheney.interview/index.html

Mind boggling.

Insane? Crazy? Drunk with power? Haven't stolen everything yet?

Or on the ropes?

You make the call.

[katinmn]

1. A huge success for BP, Shell, Exxon Mobil, Halliburton

and their spawn, but that's about it.

[bryant69]

3. Well, yeah, but who really counts? Us or the oil companies?

Bryant
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[htuttle]

2. Delusional or shameless?

I haven't been able to decide about Cheney. I used to be quite convinced Cheney is just incredibly shameless, but he's been saying things so absurd for so long that I'm starting to wonder whether he is actually delusional.

[FrannyD]

4. They are pure evil

Those who voted for them are delusional.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

5. Reagan used to call some of the people Cheney and his brood

are destroying, "freedom fighters". My how things change with the wind. As if a democratically elected government in Iraq is the answer to all the world's ills.

Hell, how many democratically elected (socialist leaning) leaders have we overthrown in the last 50 years or so.

These assholes keep on beating their chest about how they are doing the most incredible thing in Iraq while American unemployment rages, 45 million go without healthcare, 18,00/yr die because of it, murder is a huge issue, over 2 MILLION people are imprisoned, some only because of having a joint or two, 40 some thousand a year die in car accidents, 100,000 a yr die from properly prescribed drugs in a medical setting (Iraq had socialized medicine) and so on and so forth.

Our elderly cut their pills in half while the pricks on D.C. try to say that medicines from Canada would kill people... that true Canadians should be falling out by the hundreds of thousands.....

Hypocrisy at its best is what we do, anything less would disappoint the world, and distort their image of an empire gone mad.

We hold ourselves up as a beacon and an example to the world and the world laughs at the naivete of the American populace and rightly so.

America's god is the business man, we live for him, we die for him, we go to war for him, we sell our souls to him. I pity the fool who sees it otherwise....

[Catrina]

9. Excellent points

So many people in this country are dying, as you say, and not by terrorist acts. But they don't count to this administration.

Cheney also said, when he was selling this war, that it would take 'months, maybe weeks' and then there would be flowers and candy etc. on the tanks. Rumsfeld said the same thing, 'months, I would say, even weeks'.

I don't think any attention should be paid to anything these liars say. I don't know why anyone still asks them for their opinion.

The Downing Street Memo/minutes are confirmation of their vile, criminal plans to invade Iraq long before they made up the story they told the American people.

[Solly Mack]

6. Depends on how the history books are written(and who does the writing)

it's not like America is afraid to teach a lie and call it factual history.

Start monitoring the history books in schools...they won't wait 10 years to begin teaching the war on terror in history.

[Cha]

7. LIAR! You said we'd be treated as

liberators on the russert gag fest on March 16, 2003.

"The most damaging document supporting this claim is not secret, and remains one of the most important artifacts of the prewar debate. It is the transcript of "Meet the Press" from March 16, 2003, in which Vice President Cheney gave voice to the administration's optimistic assumptions that have now been laid low by reality.

Host Tim Russert asked whether "we would have to have several hundred thousand troops there" in Iraq "for several years in order to maintain stability." Cheney replied: "I disagree." He wouldn't say how many troops were needed, but he added that "to suggest that we need several hundred thousand troops there after military operations cease, after the conflict ends, I don't think is accurate. I think that's an overstatement."

Russert asked: "If your analysis is not correct, and we're not treated as liberators but as conquerors, and the Iraqis begin to resist, particularly in Baghdad, do you think the American people are prepared for a long, costly, and bloody battle with significant American casualties?"

Cheney would have none of it. "Well, I don't think it's likely to unfold that way, Tim, because I really do believe that we will be greeted as liberators. I've talked with a lot of Iraqis in the last several months myself, had them to the White House. . . . The read we get on the people of Iraq is there is no question but what they want get rid of Saddam Hussein and they will welcome as liberators the United States when we come to do that."


More at..
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/20/AR2005062001177.html

[6000eliot]

8. And Cheney's icy heart will beat without electrical stimulation!

[pointsoflight]

10. Yes, we're close. Last throes.

[kohodog]

11. As he laughs all the way to the bank.

He's not runnibg for President because he wants to rejoin Haliburton for a little war profiteering.