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Eugene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-14-07 01:33 PM
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(Reuters) Cheney: U.S. must show "stomach" to win in Iraq
Cheney: U.S. must show "stomach" to win in Iraq

By Tabassum Zakaria

1 hour, 13 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President
Dick Cheney said on Sunday the United States must show it has the "stomach" to win in Iraq
or it will confirm al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's view that Americans can be pressured
to leave.

Cheney defended the plan put forward last week by President George W. Bush to send 21,500
additional troops to Iraq and said critics had not produced an alternative proposal.

U.S. allies helping in fighting terrorism -- Pakistan, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, the Gulf states
and Egypt -- must have confidence that the United States will not leave before a successful
outcome, Cheney said.

"If the United States doesn't have the stomach to finish the task in Iraq, we put at risk
what we've done in all of those other locations," he said on "Fox News Sunday."

-snip-

Full article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070114/pl_nm/iraq_usa_dc

Story continues with comments by John Murtha and Chuck Hagel.
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fooj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-14-07 01:38 PM
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1. These treasonous, rat bastards couldn't be any more offensive.
The spin won't work, dickheads. This is YOUR war. YOU OWN it.
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Tellurian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-14-07 02:52 PM
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15. Stick your own stomachs out there and Win the War for US! nm
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PSPS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-14-07 01:42 PM
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2. More of the "Iraq = 9/11" canard
Dick Cheney said on Sunday the United States must show it has the "stomach" to win in Iraq or it will confirm al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's view that Americans can be pressured to leave."

Bin Laden wanted us to leave Saudi Arabia, and we did.

In fact, bin Laden wanted Hussein deposed because they were mortal enemies. We did that for him too.

I'd say Cheney, Bush and the rest of the criminal cabal are actually agents of bin Laden. If you think about it, they've pretty much done everything bin Laden allegedly wanted, including destroy our constitution and turn us into a rogue, torturing, constitution-shredding, murdering state.

Here we go again.
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-14-07 01:44 PM
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3. Show stomach?
Easy for Cheney to say.
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-14-07 01:49 PM
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7. We know how much "stomach"
Mr. I-had-five-deferments-and-other-priorites Cheney has.
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-14-07 03:03 PM
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16. I was pretty much thinking beer-gut.
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Olney Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-14-07 01:44 PM
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4. Do Americans have the stomach for impeachment- that is the question.
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mzmolly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-14-07 01:46 PM
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5. Still waiting to find out what "winning" is.
Anyone? :shrug:
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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-14-07 01:47 PM
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6. You've shown us your ass, Dick. He's your puppet boss.
Edited on Sun Jan-14-07 01:51 PM by Lastlaughin08
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JohnnyLib2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-14-07 01:54 PM
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8. Same old, same old.


Apparently, all the shrinking pool of admin. defenders have left is the
wimp/unpatriotic/ignorant/cut-and-run card.
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Lost-in-FL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-14-07 01:54 PM
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9. He's all stomach
and no brains.

Anyone can develop "guts" or the "stomach" to face situations but it takes years to develop the intelligence to deal with quagmires like these two stooges got us into.
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illinoisprogressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-14-07 01:55 PM
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10. Then he can go to iraq and fight. along with his chickenhawk buddies.
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-14-07 02:04 PM
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11. BELCH
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lakeguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-14-07 02:24 PM
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12. my stomach has peanut butter toast in it, will that help DICK?
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indepat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-14-07 02:49 PM
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13. The failure of progeny of RW chickenhawks to be willing to possibly spill their guts in Iraq
eloquently speaks to our not having the stomach to finish the task.
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Marblehead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-14-07 02:52 PM
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14. I can't stomach dick
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