Posted on 07/31/2007 3:43:06 PM PDT by indcons
WASHINGTON, July 31 (UPI) -- U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney Tuesday admitted he was wrong when he declared the Iraq insurgency virtually over in 2005.
In an interview with CNN's Larry King, Cheney said he thought at the time the capture of Saddam Hussein, elections and other milestones would be enough to undermine the insurgency.
"That clearly didn't happen," Cheney admitted. "I think the insurgency turned out to be more robust."
Cheney predicted, however, Iraq will be in a much better position by the time he and U.S. President George Bush leave office Jan. 20, 2009.
The vice president said he is opposed to closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay, saying, "you need to have someplace to hold those individuals who have been captured during the global war on terror."
Cheney also told CNN he doesn't care about whether he's well-liked and doesn't bear any grudges against Brent Scowcroft, who has said, "This is not the Dick Cheney I knew."
"If I were in the business to be popular, I suppose I'd be worried about my poll ratings and so forth. I'm not," said Cheney, adding he has no plans ever to run for office or seek another government post again. "I came here to do a job. I'm not running for any office, myself."
Cheney repeated in the CNN interview his assertion that the vice president is part of both the executive and legislative branches of government -- noting his paycheck comes from the Senate.
Gee, I wish he’d have found a way to blame the robust insurgency on aide and comfort supplied by American media and Dems. He could have said we did not anticipate that the time- honored maxim “politics ends at the water’s edge” would be repealed for the WOT.
Yes, Cheney is the man...With his guidance to President Bush after yrs of attacks against America by these terrorist...we’ve engaged these thugs with the WOT.
Time to withdraw from Iraq.
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you’ll never see a democrap apologize for anything.
"Thanks" to Truman's drastic errors in judgement, we've seen the bloodshed that results when we prematurely abandon a young country we have freed.
Truman pulled our troops out of an unstable S. Korea in 1949, four years after we freed it from Japan.
In 1950 North Korea invaded the South and Truman quickly sent troops back to Korea.
In the remaining thirty months of Truman's presidency, 30,000 Americans died in Korea, in a war that would not have occurred if Truman would have insisted our troops should linger in Korea like they did in Japan and Germany.
Exactly right - So many sideline fools today (especially in the media) but even from the right and left -
Cheney’s no leader, not a bad veep.
Truman in confidence, but Cheney is a great, clear, precise, speaker. Truman was not!
My thoughts? I’m wondering why anybody of quality sits for an interview by Larry King.
Truman, like Cheney, had guts and guts is enough.
Props to Full Metal Jacket.
Iran is not the only sponsor nation: the Sunni Arab nations have kept the insurrection alive.
cheney = OWN3D
I actually got to see the great man once while on a customer service call at Dresser-Rand (I believe a Halliburton company) in Olean, NY. While completely across the room from him, he still projected this aura, and to hear him speak, this “gravitas” was a word just invented to describe him.
“War is a series of calamaties that result in victory.” - Clemenceau.
???? Wel, ‘Victory’ is not known to be a French thing. THIS IS NOT GOOD SIGN
All I can say is..
Thanks Dick.
I’m sure this admission will gain a whole truckload of decency and admiration from the Democrats. Or maybe they’ll just howl, and ask for resignations. Which do you think will happen?
I’m sorry but Cheney, Pelosi, et al are proof that our government has become merely theater performed by ugly people, to paraphrase that great American thinker Jay Leno...
‘I’m sure this admission will gain a whole truckload of decency and admiration from the Democrats. Or maybe they’ll just howl, and ask for resignations. Which do you think will happen?’
We don’t ask a resignation just for being wrong about a little war, ... but we ask it for a blow job!
Sizable Cheney fan here, but...??
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