Cheney seeking victory, not exit (Iraq)

[sabra]

http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/10202006/worldnation-ph-wn-20iraq.html

Cheney seeking victory, not exit
Associated Press


BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The U.S. military acknowledged Thursday that its two-month drive to crush insurgent and militia violence in the Iraqi capital had fallen short, calling the raging bloodshed disheartening and saying it was rethinking its strategy to rein in gunmen, torturers and bombers.

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The high death tolls this month for both Americans and Iraqis have pushed the long and unpopular war back into the public eye in the United States, forcing the Bush administration and the military to address difficult questions in the final weeks of the midterm U.S. election campaign.

Vice President Dick Cheney said the United States was not looking for a way out of Iraq. "I know what the president thinks. I know what I think. And we're not looking for an exit strategy. We're looking for victory," Cheney said in an interview posted on Time magazine's Web site Thursday.

[MannyGoldstein]

1. The Man Needs a Mental Hospital nt

[npincus]

3. seriously

paranoid-delusional sociopath.

[C_U_L8R]

2. He ain't gonna find it if he can't even articulate what "victory" is

are they really this dumb?

[54anickel]

10. That's a secret. National security and all. Can't let the enemy know

if you're raising or lowering the bar. Shit, then again they can't even define the enemy. Oh wait, that's right it's terror. :eyes:

[Virginia Dare]

4. Cheney seeks more money in his greedy palms...

how many lives have been uselessly spent for this asshole to make his millions. I hope there is a special corner in hell for him and his puppets.

[0007]

5. Cick Cheney is a WAR CRIMINAL and should be put away out

of harms way.

"After 10 years of the most comprehensive multilateral economic sanctions in modern times, at least 1 million Iraqis have died as a result, according to U.N. studies.

So, what did Cheney have to say about these choices of targets after the war, when there was no way to deny the deadly effects on civilians?

Every Iraqi target was “perfectly legitimate,” Cheney told the Post reporter, adding “if I had to do it over again, I would do exactly the same thing.”

More here

[Tyrone Slothrop]

6. Against whom???

Seriously, who are we allegedly fighting?

What are the victory conditions???

[warrens]

7. Asked to define victory, Cheney glared at the reporter and said...

"Every fucking Iraqi dead, dead, dead and all their oil in my pocket, shithead."

[catmandu57]

8. That's the closest thing to the truth I've heard

I wonder when deadeye's mechanical heart explodes claiming victory in Iraq.

[Javaman]

9. Like the old Abbot and Costello routine...

They would walk into a place backwards and say they were leaving...LOL

Only the opposite is true here. We march out backwards and call it victory.

[zara]

11. Let's do it without troops, and have them throw flowers at us too!

We can hire Cyrus Nowasteh to do the script; Mellon Scaife to fund it through his network of nutbag think tanks; and the whole right wing radio to make it so!
WIKIALITY

[teryang]

12. He staked everything on taking over Iraqi resources and...

...isn't going to give it up. The Iraq invasion and conquest is the energy plan he wouldn't reveal to Congress.

[LeftishBrit]

13. And how many more people will be killed ?

I wish someone had an 'exit strategy' for Cheney from any sort of power!

[olddad56]

14. and what would that look like?....

Didn't we claim victory a few years ago? Wasn't the 'mission accomplished' then. Isn't it an occupation at this time.

What would victory look like? All of their oil stolen and no more Iraqis alive.