White House Is Clearing Up Cheney's Remarks [View All]

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Source: WMDT

Thursday the White House tried to clear up remarks made by the Vice President. Dick Cheney sat down with ABC News while on his Middle East trip. When asked about the public opinion polls on the war in Iraq, Cheney said the Administration can't be blown off course by fluctuations in the those polls.

Press Secretary Dana Perino says Cheney was not saying it doesn't matter what the American public thinks about the war, but that Presidents should not make decisions based on polls.

Perino says, "While people might not like the decisions that he makes, he has to do what he thinks is right for the Country, and he cannot try to chase an opinion poll and try to make things better that way. He has to act on what he thinks is right, and that's what he's done."

The Press Secretary says they still recognize that people across America are unhappy with the war.

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