Cheney downplays Iraq violence, sees 'a lot of success'

this fu*king whacko coined the phrase for Bush; "Stay The Course" which come to think of it is precisely what we're still doing after the people voted in November that they did not want to remain staying the GD. course!!

. . . is a day that sees The Penguin and his Winged Monkey on trial for war crimes.

the rest of the pricks who think blood is currency

chaos

jackpot!

This is exactly what they want. First SA breaks the OPEC production cuts. Now their filling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve at lower prices. Any backtalk from Saudi Arabia and they'll start bombing Iran.

One energy expert being interviewed from Davos Switzerland on CNBC this morning was cut off when he started criticizing SA actions. Then two other energy experts on in the afternoon described the Bush SPR announcement as "sinister." One openly said it was an indicator that Bush was going to bomb Iran and noted it was six years to the day that he father made a similar announcement that was later followed by war against Iraq. The other just said it was an obvious subsidy for big oil.

There's a new regime in place, we gave them a constitution, and they've voted three times. That's success, according to Mr. Cheney. But the new regime is powerless to run the country. The constitution we forced on Iraq, in light of the lawlessness rampant in the country and the general disrespect for the United States and everything it's doing there, is nothing more than a piece of paper. And three national elections in less than a year doesn't really look like a sign of stability.

What about the fact that the Iraqi Parliament hasn't met for months, Mr. Cheney? And those that do try to attend session don't constitute a quorum to do business? A new "regime" is all fine and dandy, but if that regime can't meet because no one can guarantee even a modicum of safety for the participants, of what practical value is that regime?

These observations and questions occurred to me, just sitting at my little computer. I'm sure that a highly paid professional like Wolf Blitzer brought up all this and more and threw it right in Mr. Cheney's snarling puss, right?

Oooh, listen! Crickets!

What world do they live in?

Cheney is just plain delusional. And evil. Bad combination.

but i agree they're evil and delusional

I mean, the destruction of the American democracy is their ultimate goal...

it's not the "success" we the people would categorize as such.

Or does he just watch shiny happy Fox like all the other curmudgeons?

He's making a killing...

he definitely doesn't see the handwriting on the wall.

!!

Sure, but not on the ground in Iraq. They have denied the seriousness of the situation in Iraq from the very beginning. What else can one expect from an administration that knowingly goes to war on forged intelligence?

... just said on CNN, "He should be ashamed of himself. He should have used that interview to resign. Just step down, just say "I Quit!" already. Admit to us that you screwed up America in your first term and you're setting the world on fire in your second term."

I couldn't agree more.

Love the part when, asked by Blitzer what his biggest mistake was, says "Oh, I think in terms of mistakes, I think we underestimated the extent to which 30 years of Saddam's rule had really hammered the population, especially the Shia population, into submissiveness. It was very hard for them to stand up and take responsibility in part because anybody who had done that in the past had had their heads chopped off."

Uh-huh. Yep. That's your biggest mistake. Sure. By the way, Mr. Cheney, Go F Yourself.

What Cheney considers success has been variously defined as:

piracy

murder

chaos

by those who write the dictionaries.

it would be the same as if germany won. war with out end means that the corp-ocracy would continue to have there blank check to rape, murder and pillage as they see fit. it would seem that although Sun-Tzu was not required reading for Bush co, Machiavelli most certainly was.

"A wise prince will seek means by which his subjects will always and in every possible condition be in need of his leadership; and then they will always be loyal." --Machiavelli's "The Prince"

Plus the 5 US soldiers fallen from the civilian helicopter and executed.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070124/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

they were MERCENARIES

sees 'a lot of success' ????

?? wtf ??

of Darth Cheney. I was waiting for Leslie to be choked by Darth's death grip, especially when Leslie asked about his new grandchild.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/24/cheney/index.html?section=cnn_topstories&eref=yahoo

Cheney: Talk of blunders in Iraq is 'hogwash'
POSTED: 9:58 p.m. EST, January 24, 2007
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Vice President Dick Cheney on Wednesday dismissed as "hogwash" the suggestion that blunders may have hurt the administration's credibility on Iraq and led members of Congress on both sides of the aisle to question President Bush's plan to send more troops to Baghdad.

In an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, conducted a day after Bush delivered his State of the Union address, Cheney was asked to respond to some Republicans in Congress who "are now seriously questioning your credibility, because of the blunders and the failures."

To that, Cheney answered, "Wolf, Wolf, I simply don't accept the premise of your question. I just think it's hogwash."

Cheney said the administration is committed to moving ahead with its plan to send more troops to Baghdad, even if Congress passes a resolution in opposition. (Read a transcript of the interview PDF)

"It won't stop us," he said. "And it would be, I think, detrimental from the standpoint of the troops."......

I am so ashamed they were elected.

They ascended to the throne via a coup.

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Hogs & hogwash go hand in hand with the cheney family.

their OWN reality, which has nothing to do with US!

Of course it is known that those danged cosmic rays (or was it being raised by Barb or read to by Laura??) took out any even theoretical ability the young nimrod may have had at taking responsibility, being accountable, or facing up to botched, failed initiatives, despite a lifetime consisting only of the above. And of course any ability to care or empathize went right with it.

As his veep, I can do no less than also continue to deny reality any place in our decisionmaking process!

Stop asking these idiotic questions or we'll have to cut off your subsidies.

"Damn your lying eyes!"

That rascally cheney sure likes to use the term "in fact" - especially when he's spewing LIES.

Too bad nothing he says is ever actually based in fact.

2/3 of the country, as well as the rest of the world, hates him and Junior. Yet they just keep playing the same old broken record over and over.

No one could have predicted Dick Cheney baring his fangs when trapped in a corner.

If that questioning isn't due to your murderous or criminally negligent fuck-ups, what do you attribute your credibility problem to? Your sparkling and sunny personalities?

There are no "blunders" in his world.