LOL...Is Dick Cheney the New "Bagdad Bob?"

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/pressingissues_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000967845

Is Dick Cheney the New 'Baghdad Bob'?
Is it just me, or is Vice President Cheney, who repeated Thursday that the Iraq insurgency is in its final throes, starting to sound like former Saddam spokesman, "Baghdad Bob"? Is it time to start calling him "D.C. Dick"?

By Greg Mitchell

(June 24, 2005) -- Is it just me, or is Vice President Cheney starting to sound like another balding, rose-colored-glasses wearing, war spokesman, Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf, better known as “Baghdad Bob”?

Yesterday, after a week of serious criticism, for claiming that the insurgency in Iraq was in its “last throes,” Cheney refused to back down, even after Gen. John Abizaid, our top military commander for the Middle East, proclaimed that the insurgency, in fact, was as strong as ever, and “a lot of work” remained to be done to defeat it. Earlier this week, GOP Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska had said he was sick of sunny assertions about the war from the White House, and declared that the U.S. indeed might be losing, not on the edge of victory.

Yet Cheney said on Thursday, “If you look at what the dictionary says about 'throes,' it can still be a violent period.” He compared this time to the end of World War II when tough battles “occurred just a few months before the end. I see this as a similar situation.” Give this man a beret!

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The concept is funnier than the acticle, but these guys are completely out of touch with reality.

I just never gave him a name... D.C. Dick is great!

Cheney seems like a pathological liar to me. He just does.

Reminds me of Al Franken joking about him, 'If you vote for Kerry, you're gonna get hit.'

... Bagdad Bob had a much firmer grip on reality than Mr. Cheney.

-P

I know they arrested Terrik Aziz, and a number of others in the Bath org, but I don't recall hearing they arrested Baghdad Bob. Did they just let him disappear???

:rofl: DC Dick has stolen the act and seriously perfected it to be the best in the public theatre of the absurd. :rofl:

After all, somebody had some interest in telling us the TRUTH when Bagdad Bob talked. When Cheney lies through his teeth, well, it's for our own good and he has to be given a forum.

Baghdad Bob was actually Dick Cheney in disguise. Saddam was paying big bucks for his show clowns in those last days and Dick of course knew Rumbo who put in the good word for him.

Did anyone ever hear the bit that Randi Rhodes did on Baghdad Bob? I was laughing so hard I was crying.