Cheney says U.S. wants to leave Iraq "with honour [View All]

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TOKYO (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney said on Wednesday the United States wants to finish its mission in Iraq and "return with honour", despite the war's growing unpopularity at home and doubts among U.S. allies.

Cheney's visit to Tokyo comes just weeks after Japan's defence minister said starting the Iraq war was a mistake and its foreign minister called the U.S. occupation strategy "immature".

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In a speech delivered aboard the USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier at Yokosuka Navy Base near Tokyo, Cheny said: "We know that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength, they are invited by the perception of weakness."

"We know that if we leave Iraq before the mission is completed, the enemy is going to come after us. And I want you to know that the American people will not support a policy of retreat," he added.



more:http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNews&storyid=2007-02-21T055343Z_01_T156764_RTRUKOC_0_UK-JAPAN-USA-CHENEY.xml

Cheney, in Japan, Tells Sailors Americans Don't Back `Retreat'
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The vice president arrived yesterday at the U.S. embassy in Tokyo to a protester blaring ``Yankee go home'' from a mobile loudspeaker nearby. His visit comes less than three weeks after Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso called U.S. policy in Iraq ``naive.'' Last month, Defense Minister Fumio Kyuma said Bush made a ``mistake'' in starting the war.

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At home, Cheney's negative approval ratings is close to record high, a recent poll showed. Sixty-seven percent of respondents in a Feb. 2-5 Harris Poll of 1,003 adults said he was doing a fair to poor job, up from 64 percent in a September survey.

``If the war continues to go poorly, his views will certainly be repudiated since he has been such a strong advocate,'' said Robert Hogan, a political science professor at Louisiana State University, in Baton Rouge. ``But to a large extent this has already happened and I am not certain his stature in the minds of Americans can sink much lower.''

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=arZANvbyJgU4

No Peace, No Honor: Nixon, Kissinger, and Betrayal in Vietnam
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/nopeacenohonor.htm


He gets more delusional every minute