GOD BLESS DICK

IRAQI LEADERS JUST FINISHED meeting in Cairo to discuss among other things a timetable for US withdrawal at the same time Dick Cheney was saying withdrawal would be a disaster. [story]

Iraqi leaders, meeting at a reconciliation conference in Cairo, urged an end to violence in the country and demanded a timetable for the withdrawal of coalition troops from Iraq.
In a final statement, read by Arab League chief Amre Moussa, host of the three-day summit, they called for ``the withdrawal of foreign troops according to a timetable, through putting in place an immediate national program to rebuild the armed forces.'' No date was specified.
``The Iraqi people look forward to the day when the foreign forces leave Iraq, when it's armed and security forces will be rebuilt and when they can enjoy peace and stability and get rid of terrorism,'' the leaders said in the statement. The session was broadcast live from the Egyptian capital by al-Jazeera.

CHENEY SPOKE at the American Enterprise institute with typical gloom and doom [White House transcript]

Those who advocate a sudden withdraw from Iraq should answer a couple simple questions. Would the United States and other free nations be better off or worse off with Zarqawi, Bin Laden and Zawahiri in control Iraq?"

A FEW QUESTIONS: What about the Iraqis?  Does the White House care what the Iraqis think?  When will House Republicans attack Iraqi “cowards” for insisting on A timetable for withdrawal?

MORE: Think Progress has a bit about different view between Cheney and Rumsfeld.

AND BUMILLER [NY Times] Is there a rift in their relationship? Or is the couple just drifting apart? Has the senior partner taken the junior partner to the woodshed? And who is the senior partner, anyway?
They spend quality time together, just the two of them . . . .”

ARE DICK AND BUSH TOGETHER? *Sigh*

MORE DICK TODAY
CHENEY CONTINUES with his ability to say one thing in one sentence and then seem to pull back from it in the next.  The first charge still sticks.

One might also argue that untruthful charges against the Commander-in-Chief have an insidious effect on the war effort itself. I'm unwilling to say that, only because I know the character of the United States Armed Forces -- men and women who are fighting the war on terror in Iraq, Afghanistan, and many other fronts.

IT IS THE ESSENCE of Dick, “the one” in the first sentence to make the same charges he made last week, and then say he is “unwilling” to make the same charges right after he has made the charges.  The Heretik, "the one" in this sentence says Oy.

 

Comments

[blogenfreude]

Does the White House care what the Iraqis think?
Of course not ... it's our country, not theirs. How inconvenient for them that their country is on top of our oil.

[eRobin]

Remember when the party line on the war was that we'd leave when Iraqi leaders asked us to? Now there's all this standing up and standing down. And Uzbekistan doesn't even love us anymore.