Cheney warns against early pullout from Iraq (making "superb" progress)

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

CAMP LEJEUNE, North Carolina (Reuters) - Vice President Dick Cheney warned on Monday that Iraq could become a staging area for large-scale terrorist attacks on the United States if troops are withdrawn too early, as he tried to shore up waning public support for the war.

With no let-up in the Iraqi insurgency, opinion polls showing U.S. public unease and some lawmakers questioning how long troops will remain, the Bush administration has stressed in recent weeks that it does not view pulling out as an option. As he visited Marines who just returned from a seven-month deployment in Iraq, Cheney said there had been "superb" progress. U.S. generals last week had offered a cautious assessment of the readiness of Iraqi forces to take over the country's security.

Al Qaeda-linked insurgents in Iraq were testing U.S. resolve, Cheney said. "If the terrorists were to succeed, they would return Iraq to the rule of tyrants, make it a source of instability in the Middle East and use it as a staging area for ever greater attacks against America and other civilized nations," he told an audience that included 4,500 Marines from the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force.

Cheney was a leading architect of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, predicting U.S. forces would be "greeted as liberators" and saying it would help defeat terrorism by depriving al Qaeda of an ally. He has also regularly given upbeat defenses of U.S. Iraq policy, saying in May the insurgency was in its "last throes."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051003/pl_nm/iraq_cheney_dc



A protester mimics a photo of prisoner abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq during a demonstration in front of the White House in Washington in September 2005. A US soldier convicted of abusing Iraqi prisoners said, in remarks made public, she knew of 'worse things' happening at Abu Ghraib(AFP/File/Brendan Smialowski)

[sandrakae]

1. Cheney is smoking crack

[texpatriot2004]

4. I think so. n/t

[bushisanidiot]

2. Ah, the plea of a desperate man to keep the distraction going..

nobody wants our troops over there and the repukes are starting to lose their base on this topic.. but, as long as it's an excuse to keep the price of oil high, our troops will stay over there "protecting" the oil fields.

[louis-t]

3. FEAR, FEAR...

FEAR, FEAR......../"=+#%@##........FEAR......FEAR FEAR, FEAR
FEARFEARFEARFEARFEARFEARFEARFEARFEARFEAR

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. Talk about being in the last throes............that's where he is

Let's all call him Desperate Dick from now on

[gratuitous]

6. The U.S. has lost twice as many troops as the Iraqis have ready to go

Casualties in Iraq are approaching 2,000, and the latest report out of Iraq is that less a battalion (that is, less than 750 men) are trained and ready to fight for the new, improved Iraq now with democracy-tinged crystals.

[ixion]

7. superb progress on the 'calkwalk' where we would be greeted

with flowers, etc. That progress. :eyes:

[texpatriot2004]

8. Cheney's "Superb" comment on Iraq contradicts today's news

Perhaps Cheney doesn't read the news either or perhaps Cheney LIES!

From Democracy Now:

Iraq Could Fall Apart Over Shiite-Kurd Split
In Iraq, political tensions between the ruling Shiites and Kurds are intensifying. Jalal Talabani, the Kurdish president of Iraq, has called on Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari to resign and he accused Jaafari and the Shiites of monopolizing power and ignoring Kurdish demands. Middle East analyst Juan Cole warns this could split the country. Cole writes "If the Kurdish-Shiite alliance is over with, then I suspect so is Iraq... When the political will of a country's elite fragments, the country falls apart. It happened in Lebanon. It is happening in Iraq."

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Sunni officials and independent Iraqi politicians reacted with dismay on Monday at a move by the Shi'ite and Kurdish majority to make it harder to defeat an October 15 referendum on a new constitution. - NY Times

[Why Syzygy]

9. "Superb progress" in his retirement fund!

JEEZIZ. These people make me want to scream!

Did anyone notice there was no SIGN of Al Qa-eda immediately after the invasion? NOW they are enemy #one? This is such bullshit!
Is it an "insurgency" or "Al Qa-eda"?

A STAGING AREA? Saddam could do NOTHING against the USofA. Point proven. BUT NOT NOW! He's more valuable than ever.

Listen. If we need to protect our country . GET THEIR ASSES BACK HOME AND DO IT!

I find it almost impossible to believe how stupid they think the American People are.

And what about the WMDs? That was the promise 2.5 years ago!
Is anyone supposed to buy this BULLSHIT?

Instability? Who the hell started that one? Would that be the Bush/Cheney administration? Sure enough! They are fighting themselves? Or destroying the world while they loot it?

What a bunch of liars. I am more sick of this than ever.

I have no words to describe the INSANITY. :crazy:

[rodeodance]

10. cheney has his own verson of life/reality.

[Why Syzygy]

11. And it is spooky.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

12. "Superb progress" toward that mansion he looked at during Katrina

He's evil, he's Dick, he's Evil Dick.

[rniel]

13. I think he was talking about his haliburton stock

It is doing superb.