Today Cheney criticized Kerry for fixing a withdrawal date -

[pinkpops]

said we are there till the mission is completed. It tips off the enemy (the Iraqi people).

Here's a refresher of what he said on Meet the Press on 3/16/2003:

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Russert: What do you think is the most important rationale for going to war with Iraq?

VICE PRES. CHENEY: Well, I think I’ve just given it, Tim, in terms of the combination of his development and use of chemical weapons, his development of biological weapons, his pursuit of nuclear weapons.
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So the mission is completed, time to go home?
Flim Flam

So far as predicting how long it will take, Mr. Cheney was not so uncertain:

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MR. RUSSERT: If your analysis is not correct, and we’re not treated as liberators, but as conquerors, and the Iraqis begin to resist, particularly in Baghdad, do you think the American people are prepared for a long, costly, and bloody battle with significant American casualties?

VICE PRES. CHENEY: Well, I don’t think it’s likely to unfold that way, Tim, because I really do believe that we will be greeted as liberators. I’ve talked with a lot of Iraqis in the last several months myself, had them to the White House. The president and I have met with them, various groups and individuals, people who have devoted their lives from the outside to trying to change things inside Iraq. And like Kanan Makiya who’s a professor at Brandeis, but an Iraqi, he’s written great books about the subject, knows the country intimately, and is a part of the democratic opposition and resistance. The read we get on the people of Iraq is there is no question but what they want to the get rid of Saddam Hussein and they will welcome as liberators the United States when we come to do that.

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Flim Flam

Edit - here's the link
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/bush/cheneymeetthepress.htm

[louis-t]

1. W is for wrong.

and the Iraqis that shit-for-brains talked to were exiles-hadn't been in country for many years, and would tell him whatever he wanted to hear.

[wishlist]

2. Bush/Cheney have never had a clue about Iraq, been wrong all along

Their credibility is nonexistent at this point and they are hardly in a position to claim superior judgment after all their miscalculations so far.

[TomClash]

3. A withdrawal date cuts into Halliburton profits

[HawkerHurricane]

4. We MUST stay in Iraq...

They've got to be protected
All thier rights respected
Until somebody
We LIKE can be 'elected' - (Tom Lehrer)

[pinkpops]

5. We'll just keep a'tryin till we get it right

[Malva Zebrina]

6. Drop Dead Cheney

you are evil and so is your wife.

[spanone]

7. FDC (fuck dick cheney)