Call-in interview with Dick Cheney and Sean Hannity (you gotta read this)

[Solly Mack]

From the White House website.

Interview of the Vice President by Sean Hannity of the Sean Hannity Show

Q And over the years we've had Democratic prominent senators, Dick Durbin compare our troops to Nazis; John Kerry say our troops in Iraq were terrorizing women and children in the dark of night; Senator Ted Kennedy compare our troops to Saddam's troops. And more recently we had this week Jay Rockefeller say about Senator McCain that he was a fighter pilot who dropped laser-guided missiles from 35,000 feet, he was long gone when they hit; what happened when he got to the ground -- they got to the ground, he doesn't know. You have to care about the lives of people -- McCain never gets into those issues.

What is one to conclude about the Democratic Party and the military and their feelings about it with those repeated statements?

THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, I think Joe Lieberman has probably been the toughest critic of what used to be his own party in terms of his view that an awful lot of them seem to be invested in failure; that they just absolutely refuse to recognize that progress has been made. And I'd forgotten that ad in the newspaper about -- that you mentioned about General Petraeus last time, but it has improved significantly, in the sense that I think there's no denying the result, and that's made a lot of our friends on the other side of the aisle I think a little more cautious and restrained in terms of the kinds of comments they make.

But if you were to ask most of those people you cited what their answer is, what their strategy is, what strategic objective they'd have for dealing with that part of the world, I don't think they've got one. Their only suggestion is that the United States ought to bail out on our friends and stop doing what we're doing. And I think down that road lies disaster.

Q If we pull out too early, what do you believe the consequences would be?

THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, what I remember, Sean, is Afghanistan -- I try to remind people of this -- back in the '80s, when we were actively involved in supporting the mujahideen there against the Soviets. We were successful, and then everybody who was involved in the effort walked away from Afghanistan. The result after that was the Taliban -- first you had a civil war; then the Taliban came to power; and then they brought in Osama bin Laden in '96. And then in Afghanistan, they trained 20,000 terrorists, a bunch of whom came here and killed 3,000 Americans on 9/11.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. I feel so dirty... he has a small point on the Mujaheedin

we funded them.

So he got HALF the story correct

What he missed was... we left this as a failed state ON BOTH SIDES of the aisle, and what happened on 9.11 was a classic case of blowback...

Oh and WE TRAINED AND EQUIPPED many of the arab fighters in the 80s, including one OBL... and that Dart Vader, was Reagan policy

[Solly Mack]

2. Yeah, real convenient the parts he leaves out

[gateley]

3. Gee, wonder what happened in Afghanistan?

Where are those troops now? Where's the money?

Biden just said they asked for $150 Million for Afghanistan, and were denied -- told they didn't have the money! $150 MILLION!

:grr:

[SpiralHawk]

6. "on the bright side, Afghan heroin production is way up." - Dickie 'Five Deferments' Cheney

"And so are war profits for republicon homelander oil, munitions, and mercenary cronies. So that's great news. Our Afghan Adventure is a tremendous success if you factor this in, and ignore all the dead people and squandered tax money. Sneer."

- Dickie "Five Military Deferments" Cheney

[jpertello]

4. OSAMA BIN LADEN: MADE IN AMERICA

The USA, via the CIA, originally backed the Islamic guerrilla resistance against the Marxist regime and Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the late 1970s and 1980s. Its efforts focused increasingly on a hardline faction which was to spawn al-Qaeda in 1987-88. ...




Between 1978 and 1992, the US government poured in at least US $6 billion (some estimates range as high as $20 billion) worth of arms, training and funds to prop up the mujaheddin . Other western governments, as well as oil-rich Saudi Arabia, kicked in as much again. Wealthy Arab fanatics, like Osama bin Laden, provided millions more. ...
Washington's favoured mujaheddin faction was one of the most extreme, led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. ... Osama bin Laden was a close associate of Hekmatyar and his faction.







As his unclassified CIA biography states, bin Laden left Saudi Arabia to fight the Soviet army in Afghanistan after Moscow's invasion in 1979. By 1984, he was running a front organization known as Maktab al-Khidamar <"Services Office"> — the MAK — which funneled money, arms and fighters from the outside world into the Afghan war.
What the CIA bio conveniently fails to specify (in its unclassified form at least) is that the MAK was nurtured by Pakistan's state security services, the Inter-Services Intelligence agency, or ISI, the CIA's primary conduit for conducting the covert war against Moscow's occupation. ...

[Johonny]

5. hey just absolutely refuse to recognize

WHERE ARE THE TROOPS FLOWERS AND CANDY *hole!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I wonder why people refuse to believe an average death rate of 1 American dead every day over a 4 month period as progress. Particularly when 5 years ago they were told the Iraqi people would treat us as liberators, the commitment would be short and the war would pay for itself.

[pansypoo53219]

7. gee, could hannity

be anymore partisan?

[Solly Mack]

8. Probably