Cheney admits was wrong about "last throes" in Iraq

[Barrett808]

Source: Reuters

Cheney admits was wrong about "last throes" in Iraq
By Matt Spetalnick

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney acknowledged on Tuesday he was wrong in 2005 when he insisted the insurgency in Iraq was in its "last throes."

It was Cheney's most direct public admission of how badly the administration had underestimated the strength of America's enemies in the increasingly unpopular war in Iraq.

But Cheney, an architect of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, otherwise gave no ground in an interview on CNN's "Larry King Live" as he defended President George W. Bush's Iraq policy.

He said the Bush administration would still send troops into Iraq if it could do it all over again, even knowing what it knows now, including that more than 3,000 U.S. military personnel would be killed.

"I firmly believe," Cheney said, "that the decisions we've made with respect to Iraq and Afghanistan have been absolutely the sound ones in terms of the overall strategy."

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070731/ts_nm/iraq_cheney_dc

[Tom Joad]

1. the "enemy" of US policy has been the Iraqi people. god bless 'em.

[babylonsister]

2. How noble of him! Gives an inch, does he? nt

[Xipe Totec]

3. I'd be more forgiving if the situation was reversed,

and it wasn't the insurgency that was on its last throes...

[baldguy]

4. Someone backed him into a corner & poked him with a stick?

Where's the video of him DENEYING he ever said "last throws"?

[dipsydoodle]

5. It's because he ignored the health warning

The White House contains nuts.

[jimshoes]

6. Note to cheeney

sound and worst are not synonyms.

[LynnTheDem]

7. "America's enemies"... gee, would that be the men, women & kids of

a sovereign nation that hadn't been doing one damn thing to anyone, least of all us, that we INVADED and SLAUGHTERED by the 100,000s???

THOSE "America's enemies"???

[Tab]

8. Gee, thanks, Dick!

We knew that was shit as soon as you said it, and you're only figuring it out now?

You are a true LIB.

Lying, Incompetent, or Both.

[libodem]

9. In other words

the end justifies the means. Fucker.

[bemildred]

10. Losing strategies can win! nt

[goforit]

11. OMG!!!!....This demented soul is possibly WRONG?

[sutz12]

12. Which time? nt

[sutz12]

13. News flash! Denial really is a river in Egypt. Film at eleven. nt

[Caretha]

14. The real "key" to this confession is this quote

"I firmly believe," Cheney said, "that the decisions we've made with respect to Iraq and Afghanistan have been absolutely the sound ones in terms of the overall strategy."

Overall strategy = secret energy meetings he conducted