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Vice President Says It's "Hogwash" To Say Bush's Credibility Is At Stake In Iraq
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"We are moving forward. The Congress has control over the purse strings. They have the right, obviously, if they want, to cut off funding," Cheney said Wednesday in an occasionally testy CNN interview.
"But in terms of this effort, the president has made his decision. We've consulted extensively with them. We'll continue to consult with the Congress. But the fact of the matter is, we need to get the job done."
If the president was almost humbly pleading with Congress in Tuesday's State of the Union address to give his plan a chance, CBS News chief White House correspondent Jim Axelrod says the vice president played what has come to be his typical role: the enforcer.
He dismissed suggestions that the Bush administration's credibility is on the line because of mistakes in Iraq as "hogwash."
And he railed at critics for not coming up with a plan of their own for Iraq.
"The critics have not suggested a policy — they haven't put anything in place," Cheney said. "All they've recommended is to redeploy or to withdraw our forces. The fact is, we can complete the task in Iraq. We're going to do it. We've got (Lt. Gen. David) Petraeus — Gen. Petraeus taking over. It is a good strategy. It will work. But we have to have the stomach to finish the task."
Cheney acknowledged the situation in Iraq was very unstable but said toppling Saddam Hussein had been the right thing to do. He said he trusted Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who he said had demonstrated a willingness to take on lawbreakers regardless of their religious or ethnic affiliations.
The vice president said the biggest mistake the United States has made in the war was underestimating the psychological effect Saddam's regime had on Iraqi citizens.
"I think we underestimated the extent to which 30 years of Saddam's rule had really hammered the population, especially the Shia population, into submissiveness," he said. "It was very hard for them to stand up and take responsibility in part because anybody who had done that in the past had had their heads chopped off."
Asked about Osama bin Laden's whereabouts, Cheney said he believes bin Laden is alive, but would not speculate about whether he might be hiding in Afghanistan, Pakistan or along their shared border. "I don't want to be that precise," Cheney said.
On other topics, the vice president said he does not think Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York would make a very good president "because she's a Democrat."
"I don't agree with her philosophically and from a policy standpoint," he said.
Cheney bristled when asked to respond to critics who question his daughter Mary's decision to have a baby and raise it with her female partner. "I think you're out of line with that question," replied Cheney, who said he was delighted about having a sixth grandchild.
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See all 238 CommentsIs this the UN?
There will be no war crimes trial or impeachment or anything else. Just keep voting Democrat so it makes you feel better. The truth of it all is guys like razzl are jealous of guys like Cheney. They have done absolutly nothing with their lives and blame those that have achieved for it.
Go get yourself a skate board and head back to the park boy and let the real men do the fighting.
Of course Bush's reputation is not tied to Iraq. Hell, dubya is the best president in history. We poor unfortunates are too stupid to comprehend his greatness. Leading us down the path to foreign policy ruin, they blindly go.
Well with daddy's money and all those deferments to get out of Nam, one would hope he could do something with his life. Although I'm not so sure it's something to be so proud of.
He obviously can not handle speaking with normal Americans....only his own Nazi party.
It is a matter of public record that Bush can hardly string together two cogent sentences and rarely does. Obviously, he has a handler that is calling the shots. That man is Cheney, acting on behalf of the powerbrokers that put Bush in office.
Cheney is a shadow president, just like Hillary was during her husband's administration.
The people of America are so lucky to have this man as the supreme ruler/Dictator/Decider!
No stinkin' "resolution" will stop him and the PNAC/AEI cabal from leading us all into WW III and assured destruction. Congress needs to impeach tryants Cheney and Bush NOW!!!
EXACTLY, Rafterman1! Who is the "we" he speaks of?
Certainly not the voters of this country, more's the pity.
This is a tired worn out talking point (notblue repeats it for example) that deserves to get be beaten down once and for all.
Off of the top of my head there's the Iraq Study Group's plan and there's Biden's plan. If you surf around for a while you'll find others at right wing, left wing, and centrist Think Tanks as well.
It's an idiotic talking point. Particularly when Bush's plan boils down to 1) more of the same in Iraq and 2) enlarging the conflict by going after Iran.
Main Entry: neo.con (ser.va.tive)
Pronunciation: 'nE-O-k&n
Function: noun or adjective
1 a : of or relating to a person or strategy of pretending to follow traditional conservatism with little or no true interest in such philosophy simply for personal, political or economic gain.
In order for something to be "at stake" it has to exist in the first place. Bush has had zero credibility since the day he entered office.
What a bunch of despicable, murderous war profiteers these scumbags are. And the saddest part is that they will almost certainly get away with everything, because no one in Congress seems to have the balls to start the impeachment process rolling.
Yeah, you can impeach over a *******, but not treason on a massive scale and illegal waging of war. That really makes me feel good about our nation's priority system.
Not.
Maybe we can get Russ Feingold to drop a copy of the Federalist Papers on the floor behind him or something?
Although I have to say, if I were a woman and my dad was Cheney, I'd be a lesbian too. To be fair, though, if I were Hillary's son, I'd be gay.
Posted by jimibear at 11:22 AM : Jan 25, 2007
Too funny, LOL.
What exactly is the task in Iraq the Bush Assministration wants to complete? How will we know when we're done there? As far as I can see, it's (yet another) open-ended troop deployment.
As of the last count, we have permanent military bases in 38 countries, and that doesn't include "front line" bases in places like Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan.
How many foreign military bases are on US soil?
Do I hear silence? Exactly.
Maybe, just maybe, if we got our d!cks out of the a$$es of other countries, people wouldn't hate us so much and we wouldn't need to fight this fictional War On Freedom ... erm, sorry, "War On Terror".
But then Sicky Dicky and his crew of soulless murderers wouldn't get any richer.
He was hired by the people. We are his boss and we don't think he's doing his job, like it or not.
If only it could have happened 6 years ago. Well, better late than never.
Posted by albiyanka at 11:31 AM : Jan 25, 2007
Someone please shred this moron.
Posted by albiyanka at 11:31 AM : Jan 25, 2007
Someone please shred this moron.
Interesting. I was expecting such a well-worded reaction.
Interesting. I was expecting such a well-worded reaction.
Not worth the effort... your bulb is too dim.
I'm not a liberal. I distrust all politicians. And I'm not a conspiracy theorist. It's just that I have enough knowledge of history to know that this sort of thing (war for money) has happened for thousands of years wherever there have been governments, including in this country, and continues today.
People who regard suspicion of government as "conspiracy theory" are, frankly, both ignorant and mentally lazy. Ten minutes of research would find multiple examples throughout history of nations being lied to by governments to start a war, and another 10 minutes of objective analysis would show you that this Iraq catastrophe is just another in the long list.
But for intellectual and moral cowards like you, who lack either knowledge or the desire to pursue it, it's much easier to sit in your secure little mental bunker and gobble propaganda, isn't it?
Good job. And you call others misinformed and superficial? I'm surprised you can manage those big words with Karl Rove's *** in your mouth.
And if you are "actively playing a part" in what the Bush administration is doing, then you are not just an ignorant coward, but a traitor as well.
George Bozo Bush and his evil counterpart *** Cheney should be indicted for war crimes and removed from office before they murder another ten thousand innocent Iraqis and thousands of American soldiers.
Cheney & Bush are both insane and are mass murdersrs, same as Adolf Hitler.
Who exactly is 'us'?
PNAC?
Until they do, there is no reason for anyone to help them with a way out.
albiyanka,
Spend some time at one of our fine institutions of higher learning and you will find yourself in the company of many of these "misinformed, superficial" liberals. Be that as it may, thanks for your 1.5 cents.
Interesting. I was expecting such a well-worded reaction.
Not worth the effort... your bulb is too dim.
Posted by dallison7 at 11:39 AM : Jan 25, 2007
Congratulations. A contradictio in terminis.
Of course this is the fault of the party that was completely out of power for the previous 4 years. And disagreeing with policy doesn't make one a conspiracy theorist.
Me: Bush and Cheney are wrong about Iraq
albiyanka: Liberal conspiracy theorist!
And I like the naive comment. Like it wasn't naive to think that a country of 28 million could be stabilized with 150,000 or so troops, or that the insurgency was in its last throws in 2005.
Anyone who supports Bozo is a either a criminal or a pinhead, perhaps both.
Bozo Bush and his supporters have no plan, doing more of the same and expecting a different result is not a plan, it's insanity.
Posted by jimibear at 11:40 AM : Jan 25, 2007
Sorry, but this one made me double-up. You might want to change your id from jimibear to jibberish.
Posted by albiyanka at 11:43 AM : Jan 25, 2007
Is that you lieberman? You know better that to try to play with the big boys, you're going to get hurt again.
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