last throes to lengthy campaign .cheney compares it to american revolution

[dajoki]

how dare he compare iraq to the revolutionary war. we were fighting for our own freedom. we invaded iraq, maybe they want their own type of freedom, and not ours. do they actually think the American people are that stupid to fall for shit like that?

WP 8/19/05http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/18/AR2005081801644.html?referrer=email


Two months after declaring that the Iraqi insurgency was in its "last throes," Cheney painted a starker picture yesterday, acknowledging that "there is still tough fighting" to come. Rather than promising quick victory, he reminded Americans that after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks Bush warned that the broader struggle with terrorism would be "a lengthy campaign."

The vice president cited the darkest days of the American Revolution, when the war was going badly and ragtag rebels were ready to go home until George Washington rallied them. "They stayed in the fight, and America won the war," he said. "From that day to this, our country has always counted on the bravest among us to answer the call of duty."

[lala_rawraw]

1. Ah, someone should tell Dick that in that analogy

The Iraqis would be the revolutionaries and we would be the British.

[dajoki]

2. that is my point

they are the rag-tag bunch, we are the occupiers.

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. Yeah, and who are we? The French?

<snicker> Couldn't help it.

[dajoki]

10. LOL

:rofl:

[Arkana]

4. Um, there's a fatal flaw in your analogy, Uncle Dickhead.

If the Iraqis are the Americans, then we're the damn British.

[dajoki]

6. not my analogy, it's cheney's

to me it' apples and oranges. it can't be compared.

[newswolf56]

5. Imagine if -- after our Revolution -- the French under Lafayette and...

the Prussians under von Steuben held our politicians at musket-point until they had written an "acceptable" constitution. The resultant war might still be going on. Yet that is precisely what we are doing to the Iraqis: forcing them at gunpoint to write a constitution, and only one to our liking.

(Yes I realize that -- American gunpoint or not -- the only constitution the Iraqis will now ever truly write will impose Sharia with all its built in horrors of theocracy, especially the total and permanent disenfranchisement of women and the imposition of deaths by fire, sword and stoning -- the only points upon which ALL of Iraq's Muslims can agree: hardly an improvement over the death-by-plastic-shredder regimen of the Hussein era. But this is a very different matter, another set of questions entirely.)

[dajoki]

8. they had to expect that going in...

oh, i almost forgot we went in to get WMDs.

[Imagevision]

7. bravest among us to answer the call of duty?

guarding the oil pipelines - MF!!!

[Dynasty_At_Passes]

9. Now I've heard the ultimate pot call the kettle black...

If anything Cheney will inspire the second american revolution, because of his connection to terrorists, dictators and unquenchable thirst for oil.

[arewenotdemo]

11. Someone please explain to me how the same "man" who stated:

"I had other priorities in the '60s than military service", can utter this sentence without choking on his words:

"From that day to this, our country has always counted on the bravest among us to answer the call of duty."