Durbin calls Cheney 'delusional'

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http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/nation/16544658.htm

WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney is "delusional" about what's happening in Iraq, the Democrats' top Senate vote-counter said Thursday.

That harsh assessment by Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., two days after President Bush sought bipartisan comity in his State of the Union address, underscores how difficult achieving that may be.

Moreover, it illuminates how many in Congress especially blame Cheney for the president's insistence on building up troop levels in Iraq rather than pulling out of the sectarian violence there after nearly four years and redeploying troops to Afghanistan and other terrorist trouble spots.

During the Senate Democratic leadership team's weekly briefing with reporters, Durbin cited a television interview from a day earlier in which Cheney told CNN "there's been a lot of success" in Iraq and rejected the idea that the situation was beyond control.

"To have Vice President Cheney suggest that we have had a series of enormous successes in Iraq is delusional," Durbin said. "I don't understand how he can continue to say those things while the president calls them 'slow failure'."

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[Hissyspit]

1. Is he delusional or is he just a liar?

Hard to tell. Cheney has a lot invested in this whole right-wing imperialistic corporatist adventure (including his ass), to much for him to give up on it and just tell the truth.

Glad to hear that Durbin said that, though.

[swag]

3. I think he's quite a bit of both.

And he suffers from the common behavioral foibles of overconfidence and loss aversion.

[jahyarain]

4. he's not delusional at all

he is nothing more than a liar. and every elected dem should be on every morning show/news program saying that very thing. no more delusional. no more misspoken. their exact words should be, "dick cheney is a LIAR".

[truthisfreedom]

2. dick's definition of success: increase in Haliburton's stock value

There has been a lot of success!

[DoYouEverWonder]

6. Yes, Iraq is an enormous success

for the oil and military industries.

[madame defarge]

5. I LOVE my senator!!!

Durbin is a real straight shooter & calls it like he sees it.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

17. kinda lucky on our state, eh?

except all the local are getting indicted, left and right.

Did you see the latest on Bloggo's e-mails? Talk about food for a prosecutor.

[madame defarge]

20. Yep...

and Illinois does corruption so well...

No, I didn't see that bit about Gov. Blowdryavich... Do tell.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

22. let's just say that his office's e-mails - even one sided

appear to direct political hiring on non-political professionals, in exchange for many pieces of green paper directed to Bloggo's campaign collection agencies.

[sinkingfeeling]

7. So glad he finally said what 80% of people have been thinking!

[saltpoint]

8. Durbin's comment is welcome, if charitable.

I believe the Vice President is a practiced liar.

His lies fly in the face of the family and friends of the men and women on all sides of the Iraq conflict whose lives are gone.

Shame on Dick Cheney.

[orleans]

9. durbin should have added: "but then again dick cheney's son-in-law

is a lobbyist for lockheed and cheney's wife used to sit on the board of lockheed--she's getting deferred compensation. so between that and halliburton, this war is really gonna make the cheney family a fucking killing!"

durbin should have said that.

[maddezmom]

14. I think he's getting closer and closer to saying it

:D

[mopinko]

18. yup. it's nice to have senators that at least tell some of the truth

it is good to hear him go that far. but christ. every day that goes by, i understand the holocaust more.

[stevedeshazer]

10. I'll go with 'liar'.

This precludes the insanity defense, coming soon to a world tribunal court near you.

[Pacifist Patriot]

11. Delusional? Hmmm...that's a new definition for criminal I hadn't heard yet.

[cassiepriam]

12. Cheney is a liar, Bush is delusional and a liar. nt

[The Count]

13. silly reality based Durbin! They MAKE reality, you study it!

:shrug:

[katty]

15. Cheney on the stand: yes, I was...am delusional-can I go now?

[goforit]

16. The question is ....What do you do with a run away psychopath?

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

19. Wrap around jacket and the appropriate medication - used to be thorazine

Then ship him to Texas. They don't mind executing crazy people

[karlrschneider]

21. Schneider calls Durbin

WAY too polite.


:eyes:

[goforit]

23. Well, he might as well call McCain delusional as well.