| Iraq=general overall situation, they’re doing remarkably well.
Posted: 10/18/2006 9:58:29 AM | From the Rush Show.
I have to question this.
CHENEY: Well, I think there’s some natural level of concern out there because in fact, you know, it wasn’t over instantaneously. It’s been a little over three years now since we went into Iraq, so I don’t think it’s surprising that people are concerned.
On the other hand, this government has only been in office about five months, five or six months now. They’re off to a good start. It is difficult, no question about it, but we’ve now got over 300,000 Iraqis trained and equipped as part of their security forces. They’ve had three national elections with higher turnout than we have here in the United States. If you look at the general overall situation, they’re doing remarkably well.
It’s still very, very difficult, very tough. Nobody should underestimate the extent to which we’re engaged there with this sort of, at present, the “major front” of the war on terror. That’s what Osama bin Laden says, and he’s right. | |
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| Iraq=general overall situation, they’re doing remarkably well.
Posted: 10/18/2006 10:23:02 AM | | Cheney has lied so much about Iraq that when he speaks now, all I hear is Charlie Brown's teacher talking. No shock here...he's just trying(without regard for the truth)to paint the picture Bushco wants us all to see. Funny he quoted Bin Laden though.........probably talked to him personally to get it. | |
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| Iraq=general overall situation, they’re doing remarkably well.
Posted: 10/18/2006 11:16:13 AM | | Cheney has no credibility left. All he does is lie, and then even denies it when he's caught red-handed on videotape. He's a pathological liar, and one of the most self-serving, greedy people ever to hold public office. | |
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| Iraq=general overall situation, they’re doing remarkably well.
Posted: 10/18/2006 12:45:40 PM | Cheney was a hard man to like from the get go...
He had that look about him.....
Like he was up to something, and it wasn't good.
The way he spoke, his intellect.
Now buddy that sang, ashcroft. I could take him, but he was just a puppet and eventually his strings broke | |
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| Iraq=general overall situation, they’re doing remarkably well.
Posted: 10/19/2006 6:35:09 AM | Hmmm.....
In the lead up to the war, patience was really looked upon as a weakness, when it was applied to UN inspections.
European allies urging patience were denounced as the “axis of weasels”
http://consortiumnews.com/2005/060605.html
Now, rather strangely, patience is a strength.
I guess times have changed, and now we have all the time in the world. | |
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| Iraq=general overall situation, they’re doing remarkably well.
Posted: 10/19/2006 6:42:03 AM | Yeah, that's true. Now that the usual suspects of American corporations are in there, charging by the minute (like the prostitutes that they are), it can take all the time in the world.
And, if by lucky coincidence the British Army is destroyed in the process, then maybe Britain can finally bcome a state of the US. | |
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| Iraq=general overall situation, they’re doing remarkably well.
Posted: 10/19/2006 12:44:21 PM | Sen Levin said about his visit.
In our visit to al-Anbar province, we learned that, unlike elsewhere in Iraq where sectarian violence is the biggest threat, the insurgency, which is increasingly dominated and led by al Qaeda, is the main threat. Our Marine leadership in al Anbar advises that 30 percent of all contracts, including U.S. Government let contracts paid for with U.S. taxpayer dollars, goes to al Qaeda. Although this province, which is almost exclusively populated by Sunni Arabs, violently opposes the perceived occupation by the U.S.-led Coalition, local tribal leaders over the last several weeks are seeking to come together to oppose the insurgency, as they view the Coalition as less of a threat to them than al Qaeda. We also learned that an obstacle to defeating the insurgency is the fact that the central government has been withholding funds from Al Anbar province and although the Iraqi Army has been developing fairly well, there are insufficient numbers in the province due to a lack of focus by the central government there.
http://levin.senate.gov/newsroom/release.cfm?id=264637
The vice president said he expected the war would end during President Bush's second term, which ends in 2009.
"I think we may well have some kind of presence there over a period of time," Cheney said. "The level of activity that we see today from a military standpoint, I think, will clearly decline. I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency." | |
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