Cheney: 'It is absolutely essential that we stay the course.'

[Kadie]

Cheney uses Mideast as campaign issue
By NANCY BENAC, Associated Press Writer
22 minutes ago


TAMPA, Fla. - Vice President Dick Cheney on Friday pointed to the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah as fresh evidence of the ongoing battle against terrorism that underscores the need to keep President Bush's Republican allies in control of Congress.

"This conflict is a long way from over," Cheney said at a fundraising appearance for a GOP congressional candidate. "It's going to be a battle that will last for a very long time. It is absolutely essential that we stay the course."

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"If anyone thinks the conflict is over or soon to be over, all they have to do is look at what's happening in the Middle East today," he said.

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Cheney also administered the re-enlistment oath to Cpl. Jerrod Fields, a 24-year-old Army gunner from Chicago who was determined to remain in the ranks after losing his left leg last year to a bomb blast in Iraq.

"I wasn't going to let the bad guys, the enemy, affect a decision I'd already made," said Fields, who was wounded while driving a Bradley armored vehicle near Rustamayah in February 2005.

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Cpl. Jerrod Fields walks up to the podium to re-enlists in the Army Friday, July 21, 2006, during Vice President Dick Cheney's visit to Fort Stewart, Ga. Fields was wounded by an improvised explosive device in 2005 while he was serving in Iraq with the 3rd Infantry Division. (AP Photo/Stephen Morton)


Vice President Dick Cheney swears Cpl. Jerrod Fields as he re-enlists in the Army Friday, July 21, 2006, at Fort Stewart, Ga., as his wife, Kirra Fields, watches. Fields was wounded by an improvised explosive device in 2005 while he was serving in Iraq with the 3rd Infantry Division. (AP Photo/Stephen Morton)

[Poll_Blind]

1. Or, "Don't change tanks in mid war crime". n/t

PB

[arcane1]

2. how conveeenient

asshole

[ComerPerro]

3. Only an idiot would think the Iraq mess will end soon, eh Cheney?

Is that why your administration announced that the war would last a few weeks, tops?

[muntrv]

4. You mean the enemy is not in the last throes? How shocking!!!

[pooja]

5. I only wish I had been able to go to demonstration against him

this afternoon...alas work calls. Thanks to those who showed up, even though it won't make the news it makes me feel better knowing Tampa rallied in disaproval.

[Monkeyman]

6. What stay the course have a larger wall then Nam

7. Hitler and his devotees

sickening.

[LibDemAlways]

8. What Cheney left out was.....

"so that I can continue to make obscene amounts of money and my corporate pals can prosper. Thanks for agreeing to be cannon fodder."

[Turbineguy]

9. 'It is absolutely essential that we stay the course.'

He must have bought stock in a funeral services company.