It's Official: Situation In Iraq Hopeless

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Cheney: Situation in Iraq not hopeless

WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney said Wednesday it was "hogwash" to suggest that President Bush's credibility was on the line because of mistakes made in Iraq.

Cheney acknowledged that the situation in Iraq was very unstable, but that toppling Saddam Hussein was the right thing to do. He said he trusted Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, saying he had demonstrated a willingness to take on lawbreakers regardless of their religious or ethnic affiliations.

"The critics have not suggested a policy — they haven't put anything in place," Cheney said in an occasionally testy televised interview with CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer.

"All they've recommended is to redeploy or to withdraw our forces. The fact is, we can complete the task in Iraq. We're going to do it. We've got (Lt. Gen. David) Petraeus — Gen. Petraeus taking over. It is a good strategy. It will work. But we have to have the stomach to finish the task."

more if you can stand it: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070124/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cheney_interview

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1. bush does not have any credibility dick

Although the dems do have plan(s), why should they ride to the rescue to unfuck your clusterama which is the result of your fucking lies? Gen Petraeus will do fine until he speaks truth to power then you fuckwad chickenshit chickenhawks will shit can him.

[Bobbie Jo]

2. Dick has no credibility to attribute credibility....n/t

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4. Whenever Cheney talks about Iraq, the opposite is true.

Therefore, the President has no crdibility, the situation is hopeless, and staying there will serve no purpose except to get more people killed and pour more tax money into Halliburton's coffers.

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3. Eloquent and to the point.

Well said, Bosshog.

[BOSSHOG]

5. The motherfuckers really bring out the eloquence in me.

I'd like to see General Petreaus tell these fucking monsters to shove that fourth star up your fucking asses and find another whipping boy.

[smoogatz]

7. It could happen.

Patreaus does not strike me as someone you'd want to fuck with--even (especially) if you're Bush/Cheney.

[gratuitous]

6. Saddam's gone! Saddam's gone!

Yeah, the guy Rumsfeld was grinning with and shaking hands with is gone. Big whoop. Was he worth 3,000 American soldiers? Tens if not hundreds of thousands of Iraqis? Half a trillion dollars? Our national honor? Our integrity? Our Bill of Rights?

Saddam was a pimple, and he wasn't worth the liquid to piss on his grave. And yet you squandered all those lives and all that money as well as so much of our nation's good will, Mr. Cheney. You are worth even less than Saddam.

[blondeatlast]

8. Cheney added that the sky is yellow and that the pope had a late-life bris... nt

[Initech]

9. It was hopeless the minute Bush did that partisan photo op on the aircraft carrier.

That was the war's jumping the shark point.

[DaveJ]

10. Critics "they haven't put anything in place"

So dickwad is saying that Dems haven't devised a better military solution, basically, when the answer is to the problem is not a military solution but a diplomatic one. That's problematic for a cabal that nobody would want to be in the same room with.

Of course this is all by design. Cheney and his ilk do not want this cash cow of a war to end.