Cheney would have made a great president. Truman redux.
He has many fans, me included.
Used to call him a "real straight shooter".
“War is a series of calamaties that result in victory.” - Clemenceau.
There will never be a “perfect” war.
One thing I noticed (gratefully) was that Cheney never said word one about the immigration bill. Somehow I don’t think he was in favor of it. (Hope it’s not just wishful thinking)
GOOD for him that he opposes closing Gitmo!!
He wasn’t wrong.
“U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney Tuesday admitted he was wrong when
he declared the Iraq insurgency virtually over in 2005.”
I give him credit for being big enough to admit the mis-assessment.
And also wish that he and Dubya had stepped up earlier and really
prosecuted the conflict (e.g., multiple surges if needed).
Of course, that sort of strategery is above my payscale, so that’s
just a naive civilian’s comments.
The so called insurgency is being fed by foreign nations and terrorist groups.
We are largely at war with foreigners IN Iraq. If we could take the war to the sponsor nations like Iran nothing would be off the table. As it is, we are fighting a politically correct police action without curfews.
He woould have been right!
F'n rats.
There was an insurgency that arose in the Reconstruction South after America’s Civil War called the KKK. It lasted for roughly 100 years. Imagine if Nazi Germany and the USSR had provided them with weapons and training to continue their campaign of terror.
Gotta LOVE a national figure who doesn’t care about being liked in the short term. He and W are two men who know who they are. HIstory will be very kind.
I look at it this way: do I want Bush/Cheney in charge of my nation’s security or would I prefer Kerry/Edwards or Reid/Pelosi ? A no brainer.
And to those who would inevitably bring up the immigration issue: if you think Bush’s position is bad (it is) ...imagine what Gore/Kerry/Clinton/Obama would do.
I love George Bush...but Dick Cheney is the man!
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.
Cheney’s no leader, not a bad veep.
My thoughts? I’m wondering why anybody of quality sits for an interview by Larry King.
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.