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Bush_Eats_Beef Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-23-05 10:54 PM
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Leslie Blitzer interviews Evil Dick: more on "The End Of The Insurgency"


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

BLITZER: Let's talk about some controversial comments you recently made suggesting the insurgents in Iraq were in, your words, in their "last throes." Do you want to revise or amend those comments?

CHENEY: No, but I'd be happy to explain what I meant by that. If you go back over a year ago, we intercepted a message from Zarqawi, the top terrorist in Iraq, sent to Osama bin Laden. And it basically said that, if the Iraqis were successful in establishing a democracy in Iraq -- standing up a viable government -- that he'd have to pack his bags and go elsewhere. And he was obviously very concerned about that possibility.

At the same time, we're making progress, in terms of training up Iraqi security forces. I think the months immediately ahead will be difficult months. I think there will be a lot of violence, a lot of bloodshed, because I think the terrorists will do everything they can to try to disrupt that process and that flow that's well underway.

But I think it is well under way. I think it is going to be accomplished, (and) that we will, in fact, succeed at getting a democracy established in Iraq. And I think, when we do, that will be the end of the insurgency.
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camby Donating Member (411 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-23-05 10:57 PM
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1. I confess, I HATE DICK CHENEY
He, more than anyone in the administration, is the embodiment of pure evil. He's the head vampire. He's invulnerable, he knows it, and he ain't ashamed to show it.
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eleny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-23-05 11:12 PM
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2. Is this the interview where he defined "throes"?
Edited on Thu Jun-23-05 11:12 PM by eleny
Just heard a snippet of that on the news. Oh, Jeebus!
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Bush_Eats_Beef Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-23-05 11:22 PM
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3. Yes, that 's it.
He knew what he said, and he knew what he meant, but in light of looking like a complete idiot, he'll clarify his remarks.

Or something like that.

:silly:
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