Posted on 11/16/2001 1:10:45 PM PST by america-rules
By Charles Aldinger
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) fired a broadside at critics of the U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan (news - web sites) on Wednesday, saying they had been ``dead wrong'' in sniping at the pace of a 39-day bombing against the Taliban.
Boasting that the Taliban were in flight ``virtually all over the country,'' he chided analysts who accused the Pentagon (news - web sites) of not dropping more bombs or putting more troops into Afghanistan.
``It's nice, at a moment like this, to be able to remind them (critics) that a lot of what they put out over the course of the last few weeks was just dead wrong,'' Cheney told the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (news - web sites) in a speech.
He was not specific about the critics but said it included military pundits, the Washington press and ``talking heads'' on television.
Praising Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the military Joint Chiefs of Staff, the vice president said that ''we've got some great people running the operation. And the results are there for all to see.''
Cheney cautioned that the war was far from over in Afghanistan despite the collapse in many areas of military forces of the fundamentalist Muslim Taliban, who have ruled the country for five years.
``This is a very good beginning to what's likely to be a long struggle,'' he said.
``They (the Taliban) have lost their control over a major part of Afghanistan. They've lost control of most of the cities. Many of their forces have been killed, captured or fled to the hills,'' he said.
But in another apparent jab at critics, he noted that President Bush (news - web sites) had vowed to end support by the Taliban and other countries worldwide for ``terrorist'' networks such as al Qaeda guerrillas of fugitive Osama bin Laden (news - web sites), accused of masterminding Sept. 11 attacks on America.
``I think this morning, in the fate that has befallen the Taliban, there is proof positive,'' the vice president said.
``If anybody has any questions about whether or not we're determined to carry through on that threat, all they have to do is go visit Afghanistan today and interview members of the Taliban -- if they can find any.''
SSSSSShhhhh!!! Don't tell anyone....
To think, even for a moment, that Al Gore came ever so close to stealing the election makes me shudder.
Worse yet, try to imagine what the presidential team of Hillary and Billary and Notbright and Cohen would be doing just about now had this happened on their watch.
I would like to add to the list of dead wrongs: McAinal and his sneering and hissing pet possum Krystol, Lew Rocknut, and all of the phoney conservatives on tv taking snide shots at our military and President Bush!
Last but not least to the phoney conservatives who post on FreeRepublic to trash GW and trash our military in this operation!
It has been a good week for those who love America and a terrible one for those who hate America, here and abroad.
NO!!! And who would have known.... at a time when we most NEEDED them.
Not to mention sexy!!
You are sooooo RIGHT ON, Grampa!!!! Took the words out of my thought. I'm ashamed of the Buchanan Brigades, the "Left wing" Libertarians who are joined the antiwar brigade, etc.
Yes, indeed. Ain't it grand?
LOL. Too funny. Yes, they're sexy and REAL men.
For the men, "sexy" is our terrific National Security Advisor Dr. Condoleezza Rice. She don't mince her words either. Gotta love that babe!!! Some world politician said he couldn't concentrate after looking at her legs. LOL.
Why is terrorist in quotation marks??
Actually now a lot of critics have completey changed their tone. Now they are complaining that we are being much too rough with the Taliban. That we are bombing them too much and destroying them too thoroughly.
Whoever said OBL was the chief target?
Oh, The press, I forgot ?
heheh - I kinda like the guy, too.
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