Cheney admits was wrong about "last throes" in Iraq

[Kadie]

Ya think?

Cheney admits was wrong about "last throes" in Iraq
By Matt Spetalnick
38 minutes ago


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney acknowledged on Tuesday he was wrong in 2005 when he insisted the insurgency in Iraq was in its "last throes."

It was Cheney's most direct public admission of how badly the administration had underestimated the strength of America's enemies in the increasingly unpopular war in Iraq.

But Cheney, an architect of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, otherwise gave no ground in an interview on CNN's "Larry King Live" as he defended President George W. Bush's Iraq policy.

He said the Bush administration would still send troops into Iraq if it could do it all over again, even knowing what it knows now, including that more than 3,000 U.S. military personnel would be killed.

"I firmly believe," Cheney said, "that the decisions we've made with respect to Iraq and Afghanistan have been absolutely the sound ones in terms of the overall strategy."

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070731/ts_nm/iraq_cheney_dc_1

[Bleacher Creature]

1. And water is wet.

So what else is new?

[NanceGreggs]

2. "... in terms of the overall strategy."

The overall strategy being? Go ahead, say it, Dickie - "IRAQ'S OIL IN OUR HANDS."

[rfranklin]

3. Yeah, you nailed that one...

They've encircled Russia and gained dominance over the oilfields and pipelines. Now they need to figure out how to strangle China.

[NanceGreggs]

9. And that crack about doing the same thing again ...

... even knowing what they know now, and what the outcome would be - I guess it's easy to say that when you really don't give a flyin' fuck how many people die, so long as you get what YOU want.

And the sad irony is, I don't think they ARE going to end up with what they want at the end of it all. Just my little prediction - but only time will tell that tale.

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

4. Too little, too late. It will always be so with this man.

[bdamomma]

5. coming out of your crypt Cheney, you can go to hell.

[Perky]

6. What he should have been asked next is

Are you saying that the military failed to execute the strategy effectively?


No..????


Well then it was Mr. Rumsfeld's planning?


No?

Well then was it the overall Wbite House strategy?


No?


So there was no failure at a tactical, planning or strategic level?

So who is responsible for this quagmire?


and then mercifully he tell us us the truth


"It is Hillary Clinton wing of the Senate fault because she voted for the war in the first place".

[NeedleCast]

7. Clue Train Finally Arrives at DIcks

after long delay.

[baby_mouse]

8. 2 fucking years later. How many died for you to figure that out, Dick?

[David Zephyr]

10. He also told Russert that he "mispoke" about Saddam's nuclear program

Ah, but they got re-elected and go their war, didn't they?

[driver8]

12. I'll bet you that "mispoke" is one of the most used words in Washington.

It is a great substitute for "lied."

[driver8]

11. Cheney admits he doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground...

tell us something we don't know, Dick!

[MrPrax]

13. Oh...he was wrong about that!

But he was right about WMDs in Iraq, smacking George around for snorting all the coke during the game and if he could hit an old guy in the face from 10 yards out drunk...

Cheney/Negroponte '08
Rested, Ready and He's Got New Batteries!!!

[gulliver]

14. They should have asked him what he's been right about.

I wonder who was the "we" in "the decisions we've made".

[cynatnite]

15. Satan's pissed about it, too...