Posted on 03/24/2008 1:06:12 PM PDT by tobyhill
In an exclusive interview with ABC News, Vice President Dick Cheney was asked what effect the grim milestone of at least 4,000 U.S. deaths in the five-year Iraq war might have on the nation.
Noting the burden placed on military families, the vice president said the biggest burden is carried by President George W. Bush, who made the decision to commit US troops to war, and reminded the public that U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan volunteered for duty.
"I want to start with the milestone today of 4,000 dead in Iraq. Americans. And just what effect do you think it has on the country?" asked ABC News' White House correspondent, Martha Raddatz, who traveled with the vice president on a nine-day overseas trip to Iraq and other countries in the Middle East.
"It obviously brings home I think for a lot of people the cost that's involved in the global war on terror in Iraq and Afghanistan," Cheney said in the interview, conducted in Turkey. "It places a special burden obviously on the families, and we recognize, I think — it's a reminder of the extent to which we are blessed with families who've sacrificed as they have."
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"Cheney Exclusive: On 4,000 Dead in Iraq, He Says They Volunteered"
Yes, these gallant soldiers volunteered. Every life is precious. Too bad MSM can’t honor those who gave their all.
What a rotten headline and very misleading to the full context of the comments which were more geared toward the number of tours that some had been involved in.
The MSM is giddy over this. When will they publish an abortion death toll?
I mentioned the same thing in an earlier post. How come the number of dead children since the enactment of Roe v. Wade is a non-issue? My heart goes out to the family and friends of the fallen. God bless each and everyone of their gallant souls.
Read some of the comments. I wonder what they would sound like if Al Gore had been POTUS and 9-11 happened? Which it was going to regardless of who was in the White House.
Yes wasn't it good they didn't have better things to do than serve their country.
I had to post the article headline as written but the link to the article is disgusting. I hope whoever wrote the link title goes and hangs themselves after the complaints ABC will get.
Your headline sucks.
from the same pigs who spit in Viet Nam soldiers faces 35yrs ago.....
I know it sucks but I didn’t write it and I attributed it to the ones that did, ABC.
There is NO greater love than the man who lays his life down for a friend!!!
My daughter’s boyfriend is a Marine. He lost five buddies when he was stationed in Fallujah.
Raddatz noted that some soldiers, Air Force members, and Marines have been on multiple deployments and have been sent back to Iraq because of the stop-loss policy — an involuntary extension of a service member's enlistment contract. The Army alone says 58,000 US soldiers have been redeployed to war because of the stop-loss policy.
Cue the plug for the latest anti-War movie.
All you guys would be wearing turbans and all us gals would be wearing burkhas.
'04?
And Al-Qaeda would have hit us at home, again and again, possibly with WMD. But the DOJ would have those indictments for Bin Laden, Zawahiri, etc. ready to be handed up ...
Iraq Journal: The Liberation of Karmah, Part I
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