Cheney on Wolf defending the "last throes" comment....transcript

[maddezmom]

Interview of the Vice President by Wolf Blitzer, CNN

~snip~
But let's talk about some controversial comments you recently made suggesting the insurgents in Iraq were in, your words, their last throes. Do you want revise or amend those comments?

THE VICE PRESIDENT: No, but I'd be happy to explain what I meant by that. If you go back over a year, 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 at 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.

What's happened since then, of course, is that we've had considerable success. We've transferred sovereign authority about a year ago, held elections in January, the first free elections in Iraq in a very long time. We've set up an interim government. There's a constitutional process in place now to draft a constitution. Later this year there'll be a referendum on the constitution, and then national elections finally at the end of the year in the fall. So the political process is going forward making significant progress.

~snip~

Q He says the insurgency now is at a strength undiminished as it was six months ago, and he says there are actually more foreign fighters in Iraq now than they were six months ago. That doesn't sound like the last throes.

THE VICE PRESIDENT: No, I would disagree. If you look at what the dictionary says about throes, it can still be a violent period, the throes of a revolution. The point would be that the conflict will be intense, but it's intense because the terrorists understand if we're successful at accomplishing our objective -- standing up a democracy in Iraq -- that that's a huge defeat for them. They'll do everything they can to stop it.

You look back at World War II, the toughest battles, the most difficult battles both in Europe and in the Pacific occurred just a few months before the end: the Battle of the Bulge in December of 1944 and Okinawa in the spring of 1945. And I see this as a similar situation where they're going to go all out, and they'll do everything they can to disrupt that process. But I think we're strong enough to defeat them. And I think the process itself of establishing a democracy and a viable security force for the Iraqis will, in fact, signal the end, if you will, for the terrorists inside Iraq.



lots more:http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/06/20050623-8.html

[ET Awful]

1. LMAO . . . What a load of utter horseshit.

I guess it depends on what your definition of "throes" is. What a lying sack of pig puke.

[maddezmom]

6. loved the "if you look in the dictionary" comment

but he's been researching it. :D

[Parche]

2. cheney

God I cant stand when they compare World War 2 to the illegal
invasion of Iraq, they are NOT the same Dickhead Cheney,
of course nothing you say is the truth

[stopbush]

3. He either has no idea how bad it is yet to get

or he's lying...or both.

[maddezmom]

7. he's counting all his money in his Halliburton Blind Trust

:puke:

[stanwyck]

4. Who is this "we" Mr. Cheney?

"I think we're strong enough to defeat them."
You, Mr. Cheney, repeatedly sought deferments during Viet Nam.
Fine.
I wouldn't have wanted to go there, either.
But now don't start saying "we are strong enough to defeat them".
You're still sitting on your ass, safe and sound, here in America.
You're not strong enough to walk around the block. Nevermind riding in an armoured truck over rough terrain in sweltering heat in Iraq. Knowing you could be blasted to bits any moment by a bomb.
You're not a warrior, Mr. Cheney.
You're an old man who ducked and swerved during wartime.
And now you've got your chest puffed out like you're John Wayne.
Disgusting.

[fooj]

5. "But I think we're strong enough to defeat them." YOU THINK???

OMG- he is beyond disgusting!

peace.

[gizmo1979]

8. But at the same hearing

General Abiziz,not sure of the spelling,Said that far from the last throes the insurgency is increasing especially with the addition of foreign fighters.Rummy was 2 chairs down when he said it.

[leftchick]

9. I watched that "dictionary" segment

What Utter Horse shit! God, he really thinks we are all as stupid as his crackhead freeper followers!

:crazy:

[prole_for_peace]

10. well thank goodness he cleared that up.

i am so relieved that everything is almost over. :sarcasm:

[oxbow]

11. Gee, if Webster agrees with Cheney, I guess I will too.

You know they're in trouble when they start telling you the definitions of words. Kinda like Clinton during the impeachment hearings.


"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink." –George Orwell