thinkprogress.org - 1/14/2009
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In an interview airing tonight on PBS’s Newshour, host Jim Lehrer asks Vice President Cheney about the U.S. soldiers who have lost their lives in the war in Iraq. Cheney shows little remorse :
Q: But Mr. Vice President, getting from there to here, 4,500 Americans have died, at least ...
breitbart.com - 1/13/2009
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breitbart.com —
BAGHDAD (AP) - Vice President-elect Joe Biden told
Iraqi leaders Tuesday that the incoming U.S. administration is
committed to a responsible troop withdrawal that does not endanger improvements in security, an Iraqi spokesman said. Biden delivered ...
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Iraq official: Biden affirms 'responsible' pullout
swamppolitics.com - 1/14/2009
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swamppolitics.com —
by Mark Silva President Bush has fessed up
some of his mistakes, several in fact, in his
final press conference. But Vice President Dick Cheney is sticking to his story: The only mistake he can think of, in an interview airing on PBS this ...
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Cheney: War deaths worth it, 'I think so'
jonswift.blogspot.com - 1/11/2009
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jonswift.blogspot.com —
As I recently predicted , in few months,
with the benefit of hindsight, historians will look back
on the Bush presidency as an unalloyed success and consider President Bush to be one of our greatest presidents. Although the White House has sent ...
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President Bush's Legacy: One of Our Greatest Presidents
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Worth It
Eschaton —
Monstrous liar until the end.
Dick Cheney: Bloodthirsty Ghoul
Oliver Willis —
... Joe Biden can’t be our vice president soon enough. Dick Cheney, unparalleled as the worst human being to ever hold that office, just revels in the unnecessary deaths of 4,500 Americans. He probably gets giddy over the Iraqis that have died as well. Sick bastard. ...
Cheney: "The Iraq Was Was Worth It... It Was a Difficult Situation But It Was Successful" (Video)
Gateway Pundit —
... today that Vice President Cheney announced that the Iraq War was worth it and that most of our objectives have been reached. ...
Craziest Republican of the Day: Dick Cheney
The Reaction —
... it is Cheney who is doing much of the talking, contrary to how he conducted himself for most of the past eight years, stewing in his bunker. Nothing he is saying is all that revealing -- he's less introspective than Bush, and more dishonest, and very much just as he has been all along, full of arrogant self-justification -- but much of it, as you might expect, is crazy. For example, this doozy from an interview with Jim Lehrer (more here, with the full transcript here) airing tonight: ...
Historian Re History
Jules Crittenden —
... people. And if he does, he does not then expel the UN weapons inspectorate looking for proof of it, as he did in 1998 and again in 2001. Mr Bush assumed that the Coalition forces would find mass graves, torture chambers, evidence for the gross abuse of the UN’s food-for-oil programme, but also WMDs. He was right about each but the last, and history will place him in the mainstream of Western, Eastern and Arab thinking on the matter. Read the rest at the Telegraph . Related at Think Progress : Cheney on whether the Iraq War was worth the 4,500 Americans killed, “I think ...
All Right Then
Shakesville —
Jim Lehrer: ...4,500 Americans have died, at least 100,000 Iraqis have died [in the Iraq War]. Has it been worth that? CHENEY: I think so. (Link)All right then. Think Progress has a great picture to accompany their post on this.
Cheney on Why Saddam Had to Go
Weekly Standard Blog —
... Vice President Cheney explained to Jim Lehrer in an interview that aired last night why the Iraq war was the right choice. ...
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