Cheney the winner of 5 draft deferments to avoid combat says U.S. must not retreat from Iraq

[NNN0LHI]

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyID=2006-11-18T034108Z_01_N17434506_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ-USA-CHENEY.xml&WTmodLoc=Home-C5-politicsNews-3

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney insisted on Friday that America must not turn its back on Iraq, even as the Bush administration considers a course change in the war after voters vented anger over it in this month's elections.

"Some in our country may believe in good faith that retreating from Iraq would make America safer. Recent experience teaches the opposite lesson," Cheney said in a speech to the Federalist Society, a conservative legal group.

Cheney was speaking publicly for the first time since the November 7 elections in which voter anger over Iraq helped oust President George W. Bush's Republicans from power in Congress.

[kentuck]

1. He was talking to a bunch of "conservative" lawyers...

setting their perameters..

[madokie]

2. I'm not sure many still listen to dick

[Lasher]

5. They'd better run!

Conservative lawyer season just opened and Elmer Cheney is packin'!

[acmejack]

3. You know, it's a funny thing...

I feel the same way about an auditorium full of Federalist Society members and Dick Cheney as John Bolton does about the top ten floors of the UN.

[Lasher]

4. Stay the Course!!

That's all we gotta do in Iraq is just stay the course! Cowords just want to cut and run! Just ask Rummy, he'll back Lord Vader up on this. Uh, Rummy? (cricket, cricket)

[pdxmom]

6. Has Cheney ever made one of those "surprise" visits to Iraq, or

has he "deferred" there, too?

[doc03]

7. Yea but Bush is on the front lines in Vietnam. nt

[Hubert Flottz]

8. Cheney wants the troops to die for his company's bottom line.

It's about Cheney's money!

[elocs]

9. Isn't it ironic with Bush being in Vietnam?

The one place he avoided going to at all costs as a draft eligible young man when he got into the National Guard.

[LynnTheDem]

10. "Recent experience teaches the opposite lesson"

Such as US in 'Nam?

Soviet Union in Afghanistan?

French in Algiers?

Cheney the deferment-dick; 2nd stupidest MFer on the planet.