Vice President Cheney says Iraq withdrawal would lead to future return engagement

[maddezmom]

Source: AP

NEW YORK: Vice President Dick Cheney warned that a Democrat-led troop withdrawal could condemn a future generation of American soldiers to return to the Iraqi battlefield.

In a Thursday evening speech in Manhattan that touched on tax cuts, energy, U.S. security and the conflict in Iraq, Cheney told more than 700 Republican donors that it was critical for Republicans to win Congress and retain the White House on Nov. 4.

"The stakes are very high," Cheney said at the New York Republican State Committee's annual dinner-fundraiser. "Whether the issue is the economy or energy or the federal courts or national security, the right answers for our nation are not coming from Democrats but from Republicans."

~snip~

Democratic candidate Sen. Barack Obama has said he would remove U.S. combat troops within 16 months of taking office. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has said she would begin a pullout within 60 days after becoming president. The Republican candidate, Sen. John McCain, supports continued U.S. military involvement in Iraq.

The Democratic National Committee, asked to comment on Cheney's speech, said: "The Bush-Cheney-McCain propaganda machine was hard at work again tonight as Dick Cheney promised McCain's 100 years in Iraq and not the change of course Americans are looking for."



Read more: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/05/30/america/NA-POL-US-Cheney-Iraq.php

[Stuart G]

1. Maybe, but we ought to send him and dump him in Sadar City..

[lligrd]

4. I've Always Thought That Would Be The Perfect Response

with a "We Apologize" note attached to him.

[tekisui]

2. His predictions are always right on.

[lligrd]

3. F*** Cheney

Is he threatening to return from the dead or prison? Either way, my reaction is the same. FU Cheney!

[mac2]

5. Ya when he's back in power.

Or the Neo Cons decide it.

[lligrd]

6. Cheney Is A Perfect Example Of Why The Rich

don't deserve better medical treatment than the rest of us. I don't care how much money the guy had, a patriotic doctor would just say "Go to hell."

[NRaleighLiberal]

7. Interesting logic - "if we don't stay there forever, we may need to return". Huh?

Can they be as utterly stupid as we think? They must be profiting from this big time to keep up such perpetuation of falsehoods!

[PuraVidaDreamin]

8. Indeed!

What we need is perpetual engagement! Argggh

Here's hoping Scott's book put a halt to Cheney's plan to bomb Iran.

[lligrd]

9. Maybe He Is Just Hoping They Are As Stupid As The American

public has been so far.

[4dsc]

10. I wondered where Cheney has been

he's been out of sight for a while it seem. Now I know he was just rehearsing this speech..

[WildClarySage]

11. Well Dickie, lets give it a shot anyway, shall we?

You might be surprised.

[Sam Ervin jret]

12. Someone put this assh0!e in his man sized safe and bury it already.

Has this guy told the truth, ever once since he has been in office?

Oh, wait yes. He did. When he answered "so" in response to a query about the opionions of the American people.

Shut him up. Put a sock in it Darth, the empire in OVER. The emperor has no clothes and you are the devil's dancing fool.

[onehandle]

13. Onehandle says that no Vice President Cheney will lead to fewer wars. nt

[LynnTheDem]

14. "There is no doubt Iraq has reconstituted nuclear weapons"

"We'll be greeted as liberators"

When even the freepingly stupid rightwingnuttery knows cheney is a gasbag full of shit, just who the fuck is Cheney trying to lie to???

[Magleetis]

15. This is all they have

The repugs sound like a bunch of broken records. We have had to listen to the same BS for 8 years now.

It ain't gonna work this time.

[Lasher]

16. Odd that he should bemoan what burdens we heap upon a future generation...

while promoting endless war in Iraq, and even more tax cuts for the wealthy.

[ckramer]

17. Cheney should ask Bush declear him permenant president of USA

And make Iraq 51 state of America too.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

18. Have we ever had to return to the "Vietnamese battlefield"?

.....................................................................................

Didn't think so.

By HIS logic, one could say that, by refusing to remove Saddam from power in the 1991 Gulf War, HE (and the first President Bush) condemned a future generation of American soldiers to return to the Iraqi battlefield. Of course, his logic is totally flawed but if he's going to argue that withdrawal from Iraq now would result in us needing to go back in there at some point anyway as a reason for the public to continue to support of a horribly botched occupation and a now totally indefensible (and illegal) invasion of a sovereign (however misguided) country then I think he needs to explain his public support for the first Bush administration's (correct) decision NOT to exceed the UN mandate and overthrow Saddam's regime because they were (rightly) fearful of American troops getting caught in the middle of sectarian violence and being bogged down in an indefinite occupation.
By his logic, didn't Reagan put us into a position of having to go back into Lebanon since we withdrew from there? What about Somalia (well, we ARE kind of back in there albeit in a more limited fashion-airstrikes)?
By his logic, Republicans during the Reagan-Bush years have been the ones to actually put future generations of American soldiers in the position of possibly having to go back to the "battlefields" of several countries to "fix" the problems, some of which we created by getting involved in the first place and others that must exist (according to Cheney) because of our "withdrawal" from them.
Not to mention the fact that the "answers" coming from Republicans like Cheney, who keep stoking this "fear of withdrawal", consist solely of future generations of American soldiers fighting and dying in Iraq and Afghanistan to attempt (vainly in my opinion) to clean up the messes caused by our invasions of these countries and, in some cases, new problems that we ended up CREATING (i.e. Al-Queda in Iraq) as a result of our horribly misguided actions (primarily in Iraq).

[Doctor_J]

19. You could fit all the people who believe anything that scumbag says

into a Prius. Just wait, you old vampire. Vince Bugliosi has something waiting for you on Jan 21.

[AzDar]

20. They have been wrong about EVERYTHING.

EVERYTHING.:thumbsdown:

[Zambero]

21. Wow!!! Iraq II -- Fresh lies & spin, Fresh miscalculation, Fresh "Mission Accomplished!"

Let's roll! Dick's in charge since he masterminded the first f***up.

[hyphenate]

22. Cheney should have been

castrated and hung out to dry a long time ago. He's perverted and twisted and one of the very few people who needs to be sent to prison and kept in solitary confinement for the rest of his unnatural life.

[ckramer]

23. "future return engagement?" America is broke!

bankrupted third world country...that's the future...

[Oleladylib]

24. Cheney will be the "whole" of who we'll send back