Cheney on Iraq
I'm glad Cheney is so optimistic. After all until now everything has gone so well for the administration in Iraq. Yesterday he made this statement:
"We will succeed in Iraq, just like we did in Afghanistan. We will stand up a new government under an Iraqi-drafted constitution. We will defeat that insurgency, and, in fact, it will be an enormous success story"
I guess record opium production in Afghanistan is cause for celebration. Maybe Americans will be so high on heroin we will all start to see Cheney's point of view.
"We will succeed in Iraq, just like we did in Afghanistan. We will stand up a new government under an Iraqi-drafted constitution. We will defeat that insurgency, and, in fact, it will be an enormous success story"
I guess record opium production in Afghanistan is cause for celebration. Maybe Americans will be so high on heroin we will all start to see Cheney's point of view.
posted by mochi at 8:40 AM
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I think that Americans have heard this before.....hmmmmm..... (See http://www.cpa.org.au/garchve03/1164quotes.html for other fun quotes on our war in Iraq vs Vietnam)
31 January 1963
"The war in Vietnam is going well and will succeed."
Robert McNamara
30 June 1964
"The war in Vietnam is on the right track."
Henry Cabot Lodge
December 1966
"Of this we can be sure. Our resolution and determination has
prevailed. We are winning the war in Vietnam."
Lyndon B.Johnson
April 1967
"Not only can we now say that the enemy cannot win but we
ourselves have won the war although it is not yet at an end."
General Westmoreland,US Commander in South Vietnam
19 March 1968
"We have set our course and America will prevail."
Lyndon B.Johnson.
I wish they would publish a list of Cheney's criteria for "success." It is interesting that he claims we have succeeded in Afghanistan, now that the pipline business is all in place.
Shea, I am one of the few who do not believe the Muslim world capable of democracy. I know that is very unpolitically correct of me, but historically democracy has been bought with the ultimate sacrifice--the blood of its constituents. Unless the people of Iraq are willing to die for the cause of freedom, they will never have it. Nor will any other Muslim nation. Democracy cannot be given, it has to be bought. A sad lesson our government has not understood for decades.
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