Dick Cheney: The New 'Baghdad Bob'?

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/pressingissues_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003538598

Is it just me, or is Vice President Cheney, in his latest statements, starting once again to sound like another balding, rose-colored-glasses wearing war spokesman, Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf, better known as “Baghdad Bob”?

For that matter, has anyone seen "Bob" lately? Perhaps, as a trained propagandist, he is in the bunker with Dick, writing his material.

By now you have read excerpts from Cheney's interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN this week, filled with delusional statements -- reminiscent of his "last throes" claims -- about things going so well in Iraq and refusing to admit any mistakes (beyond counting on the American public to strongly support the war forever). Asked, for example, if there is still a deadly mess to clean up in Iraq, Cheney replied, "No there is not. There is not. There's problems — ongoing problems — but we have in fact accomplished our objectives."

In a later Newsweek interview he said that the president's State of the Union address had "shored up" his public standing -- even though every major poll shows that it actually sank.

Is it time to start calling Cheney "Beltway Bob"? Or "D.C. Dick"? Or perhaps "Bunker Bob"?

[Cleita]

1. I think Bagdad Bob learned his M/O from our side when

Cheney,Rummy et al were good friends with Saddam.