Pass Me That Doobie, Dick
Defending Iraq War, Defiant Cheney Cites ‘Enormous Successes’ – washingtonpost.com
Vice President Cheney said yesterday that the administration has achieved “enormous successes” in Iraq but complained that critics and the media “are so eager to write off this effort or declare it a failure” that they are undermining U.S. troops in a war zone, striking a far more combative tone than President Bush did in his State of the Union address the night before.
Bwhahahaha!!!!
Oh my… I honestly don’t know whether to laugh or cry. It’s not really humorous, but there’s definitely an aura of the surreal about this. Nineteen-eightyfour, anyone?
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”
— Joseph Goebbels
Posted by RebeccaHartong on January 25, 2007 under Uncategorized
I tried to watch that interview. I yelled more at it than I did at the SOTU. Cheney’s audacity, his ability to keep telling the big lie, is actually amazing. I especially liked how he mentioned Afghanistan in the early 80s and talked as if that was a success we helped them with. However, I remember it being a fiasco that we ran from and left the Afghanis in a lurch against the commie Ruskies after promising to assist. Without our help, except maybe some funneled arms, they eventually forced the Russians to go home. It was fear we would bug out on them again that made them leery of us coming in to assist against the Taliban in the wake of 9/11.
Hey, look how prescient those Afghanis are. We declared victory and ran off to Iraq, and the Taliban is on the rise again. Hooray for us.
In 1980, we were actually supporting the Talliban snce they were the leading the reistance to the Russians
Yikes, I had forgotten about that, Anonymous. That is true. Much of the Mujahedeen (sp?) ended up being or becoming Talibani.
If I remember correctly we eventually backed out completely with maybe a few surreptitious things going on behind the scenes to assist against those nasty Commies. I do remember many Afghanis asking before we went in after 9/11 if we planned to stay and assist or if we would run off again; they at least felt abandoned in the 80s.
Whatever the case, it’s certainly not as Cheney was trying to paint it.