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Cheney: "The Iraq Was Was Worth It... It Was a Difficult Situation But It Was Successful" (Video)
Gateway Pundit —
... and that most of our objectives have been reached. The Bush-bashers are outraged that the US lost 4,226 heroes liberating Iraq. Of course, they weren't too upset about these numbers when the Clinton's were in charge. Numbers from Iraq Coalition Casualties and CRS report to Congress (pdf) Vice President Cheney held his final interview with Jim Lehrer today and talked about achieving success in Iraq: ...
Bonus Quote of the Day
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire —
... -- Vice President Dick Cheney, in an interview with Jim Lehrer, on whether the deaths of 4,500 Americans and "at least 100,000 Iraqis" in the Iraq war have been "worth it." ...
Stick it in a time capsule
Political Animal —
STICK IT IN A TIME CAPSULE.... Watching Dick Cheney's latest " exit interview " with PBS's Jim Lehrer last night, it was hard not to marvel at the man's shameless, almost pathological, ...
Cheneyworld: Robot Gone Wild
The Moderate Voice —
Watching the VP interview by Jim Lehrer on PBS last night recalled the movie “Westworld” about a theme park in which lifelike robots run amok and start killing. It came out at the time that an automaton named Dick Cheney, codenamed Backseat by the Secret Service, was serving in the White House, getting toilet leaks fixed and installing a headrest for Betty Ford on the presidential helicopter.
More than three decades later, asked whether 4500 American and more than a hundred thousand Iraqi deaths were “worth” what happened there, the now ...
Down In Front!
d r i f t g l a s s —
... a final press conference on Monday, in which he reminisced about his arrival on the national stage in 2000. “Just seemed like yesterday,” he said. I think I speak for the entire nation when I say that the way this transition has been dragging on, even yesterday does not seem like yesterday. And the last time George W. Bush did not factor into our lives feels like around 1066. ... Why? Because he led the Greatest Administration Evah! From the News Hour: MR. LEHRER: One more general scope here, Mr. Vice President. ...
Jesusland's Maximum Leader
d r i f t g l a s s —
... Two nights in a row I have seen blood-soaked madmen on my teevee taking victory laps through the imaginary, eight-year history of a fictional America. Over here in the Real World which they hollowed out, set on fire, looted and left for dead, things look very different. Well, you wonder why I always dress in black, Why you never see bright colors on my back, And why does my appearance seem to have a somber tone. Well, there's a reason for the things that I have on. ...
Cheney interview
Stubborn Facts —
I missed this the other week, so I'm passing on for anyone else who missed it.
The Pro-Cheney Case For A Torture Commission
Ross Douthat —
... arguing that Obama may end up following in Dick Cheney's footsteps on at least some hot-button national security issues - and a week, as well, after Cheney himself told Jim Lehrer that if the Obama Administration doesn't continue "the interrogation program for high-value detainees ... they will, in
fact, put the nation at risk." And it comes amid a great deal of intra-liberal debate about how Obama should deal with the outgoing administration's record on detainee treatment: With prosecutions for torture and war crimes? With some sort of "truth and reconcialition" investigative ...
