Cheney: U.S. Headed for Victory

[FreedomAngel82]

Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
dyn/content/article/2005/06/01/AR2005060101796_pf.html

Snip: <At Air Force Academy, Cheney Talks of 9/11

By Peter Baker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, June 2, 2005; A02

COLORADO SPRINGS, June 1 -- Evoking the memories of Sept. 11, 2001,
Vice President Cheney called upon a new generation of military
officers Wednesday "to hunt down the terrorists before they can hit
us again" and declared that the United States is on course for
victory in the war on terrorism.

In a commencement address at the U.S. Air Force Academy, he offered
a sober, tough-minded portrait of the mission ahead of the
graduating cadets, a task far more daunting than they imagined when
they enrolled four years ago just before hijacked jets slammed into
the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is a war we are winning," Cheney told
the 906 graduating cadets, their families and underclassmen gathered
in Falcon Stadium. But much hard work remains, he added. "After
9/11, this nation made a decision. We will not sit back and wait for
future attacks. We will prevent those attacks by taking the fight to
the enemy."

The vice president's speech, echoing a similar commencement address
by President Bush at the U.S. Naval Academy last week, came at a
difficult time for the U.S. military operation in Iraq. While a
newly elected government has taken office in Baghdad, the anti-
American insurgency has launched a fresh wave of violence that
killed more than 750 Iraqis and 78 U.S. troops in May.>

[King Coal]

1. Oh, no evil in that heart.

I think I'm about to use the F word.

[EST]

4. Yeah, me too.

The word is fruitcake, as in nuttier than. The idjit is certifiable.

[FreedomAngel82]

2. How are we winning

if nobody is joining the military to fight his wars? What a jackass.

[Imagine My Surprise]

3. I am not a WW II historian but...

given the obvious fuck up in Iraq for Cheney to say this seems to just smell like some of the pep talks Hitler gave the Germans when it was obvious they had lost.

Historians, please chime in. Thanks.

[Ron Green]

5. HA HA HA HA HA HA - - - I was in Colorado Springs on this date in 1969,

and President Richard Nixon, speaking at this same event, said the same damn thing about the war in Vietnam!!!

Does anything ever change, really?

[Imagine My Surprise]

7. The game never changes...just the players

[Justitia]

6. "Justitia: Cheney Headed for Prison"

A girl can dream, can't she? :)

[ozymandius]

14. What a nice dream.

[Just Me]

8. BAH!!! His BS gives me a damn headache!!!

:grr:

[LynnTheDem]

9. IMPOSSIBLE. Kids can understand that; how come the VP of the USA can't?

Terror is an emotion.

Terrorism is a tactical manouever.

Terrorist can be anyone at anytime.

So perhaps a rightwingnut could explain to me how we "win the war on terra".

[Imagine My Surprise]

10. Exactly -- and remember, by the strangest coincidence...

the 'war on drugs' "ended" the moment the 'war on terror' began. Let's have a contest to see what the next "war on..." will be.

[Imagine My Surprise]

12. Maybe it will be "the war on murica"...catchy, huh?

I can just hear those very words coming out of asswipe's mouth, can't you?

[Imagine My Surprise]

13. or "war on freedom"...oops, they already use that, don't they?

[Jack Rabbit]

11. It doesn't evoke September 11 to me.

It evokes "light at the end of the tunnel" and other Vietnam-era nonsense.

[Canuckistanian]

15. Still "turning that corner"