Party Like It's 2009...
The Magnificent Bastard comes out swinging:
So we've gone from Bush's 50-year plan to Cheney's two-and-a-half year plan in about less than seven months. Did the surge really do that much? I kinda doubt it.
And how's this for bizarre: his take on the release of the NIE report saying that Iran's nuclear advancement has been on pause since 2003? It was “the right call.” But then again, this may be cover for a future report that will strangely support everything he wants. You can never tell with Dick Cheney.
“I am fairly confident we’ll have [Iraq] in a good place, where we’ll be able to look back on it and say, 'That was the right decision. It was a sound decision going into Iraq,'” Cheney told us in a 40-minute White House interview.
Sounding a note of caution, the vice president said: "We've got a lot of work to do. We're sort of halfway through the surge, in a sense. We'll be going back to pre-surge levels over the course of the next year."
But Cheney said that by the middle of January 2009, it will be clear that “we have in fact achieved our objective in terms of having a self-governing Iraq that’s capable for the most part of defending themselves, a democracy in the heart of the Middle East, a nation that will be a positive force in influencing the world around it in the future.”
All of that by 2009? “Yes, sir,” he replied.
So we've gone from Bush's 50-year plan to Cheney's two-and-a-half year plan in about less than seven months. Did the surge really do that much? I kinda doubt it.
And how's this for bizarre: his take on the release of the NIE report saying that Iran's nuclear advancement has been on pause since 2003? It was “the right call.” But then again, this may be cover for a future report that will strangely support everything he wants. You can never tell with Dick Cheney.
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