Cheney says U.S. wants to leave Iraq "with honour"

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U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney said on Wednesday the United States wants to finish its mission in Iraq and "return with honour", despite the war's growing unpopularity at home and doubts among U.S. allies.

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In a speech delivered aboard the USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier at Yokosuka Navy Base near Tokyo, Cheny said: "We know that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength, they are invited by the perception of weakness."

"We know that if we leave Iraq before the mission is completed, the enemy is going to come after us. And I want you to know that the American people will not support a policy of retreat," he added.

"We want to complete the mission, we want to get it done right, and we want to return with honour," said Cheney, who heads on Thursday for Australia to meet Prime Minister John Howard, another staunch supporter of Bush's Iraq policy.


http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNews&storyid=2007-02-21T055343Z_01_T156764_RTRUKOC_0_UK-JAPAN-USA-CHENEY.xml

[niyad]

1. since we entered iraq dishonourably, that is never going to be possible

[NYC]

2. "Peace with honor" is the phrase that comes to mind.

Wasn't that what Nixon said?

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Kissinger started it

but yep... that is where it started

Oh my... all them comparisons to Nam are so much off, aren't they?

:sarcasm:

[badgerpup]

8. "Now who's gonna jump up here and give him a piece with honor?"

Sorry...couldn't help it...
:blush::spank:


That's from "The Nixorcist" :evilgrin:

Found a bunch of links on Google, but they're all for Ebay...

[NYC]

38. That was a movie?

The Nixorcist?

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. "Peace with honor"

It's all but over when they start that shit.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

4. For Cheney to speak about honor...

Is the height of Irony, since he hasn't an atom's worth of it.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. When have I heard that before

Oh wait, yes VIETNAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My god the VEEP has transformed himself into Dr Kissinger!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Kingshakabobo]

7. The he should fly to Baghdad and commit Sepuku. n/t

[aquart]

9. Yes! That is exactly the correctly honorable thing for him to do!

But he prefers to have our soldiers do it.

[Selatius]

10. The big difference is Viêtnam didn't sit on 200 billion barrels of oil.

If Iraq basically turns into a bad remake of Mad Max, the region and the world will feel the shockwaves reverberate across the world for a century.

[shadowknows69]

18. How is it not mad max world yet?

You need armed ecorts to haul anything and people are living in rubble that used to be cities. Our reality is defnitely catching up to our science fiction.

[Bozita]

11. ... and I want to win the Lotto -- Betting on me is the smarter move

Cheney's 'honour" will likely cost tens of thousands of American lives.

[originalpckelly]

12. Oh holy shit, these folks just cannot avoid disturbing historical parallels, can they?

:crazy: :puke: :cry: :scared:

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. Nope

the sad part is that many of the younger folks will go SHOOSH, since they don't teach no history no more in them darn cute schools

And I don't blame the teachers for it either...

[originalpckelly]

15. Oh, I'm quite confident younger folks will understand this and how fucked up it is...

I think Cheney is the modern version of Nixon. He's very much like Nixon in a lot of ways. He's very awkward socially, just like Nixon. I think we've been slowly finding out that Libby was Cheney's Haldeman and Ehrlichman.

Only Cheney, unlike Nixon, did not go for the top spot, but decided to be the power behind the throne. He lets Bush go out there and act like President, and take the heat. Bush is perfect, because he's a nice guy, even though he's dumber than a brick. Cheney controlled, and may still control Bush, by feeding him bad information.

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. Libby Haldelman and Erlichman

now that gives me the creeps!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That said, I politely disagree, mostly since I have talked to some young, as in recent graduates of our wonderful schools.

They know it is Fucked Up, but Nixon was not only in another decade, but another milllennia and that is when they even know who you are talking about

As one kid put it, teachers usually stopped their survey of Modern US History on August 15th of 1945... because that was on the test.

And as I said I don't blame the kids

Also I will add something else, the American People are in general very much historically unaware and in general (does not apply to DU and some other sites by the way), you are lucky if they remember what happened last year, let alone over thirty years ago

My personal rant since my masters is in history and my personal frustration.

[ConsAreLiars]

19. You say "Bush is perfect, because he's a nice guy"

Yeah, that's right. The kind of "nice guy" who mocks people as he murders them. The kind of "nice guy" who spends his childhood inserting firecrackers in frogs' anuses in order to blow them up. Not to mention Iraq. Your idea of a "nice guy" is rather odd.

[TankLV]

14. They started it on lies and are WAR CRIMINALS - they can never leave it "honorably"...

It was doomed from the start - the sooner we leave the better...

I hope the world will not hate us so much in the future...

[countmyvote4real]

17. Cheney's honor = privatized oil contracts. n/t

[Eurobabe]

20. Chain-knee should just LEAVE. Period. Screw the honor we're past all hope of that.

[Yukari Yakumo]

21. What he really means...

"We'll leave as soon as my friends at Haliburton fleeced them for they are worth and we've sucked Iraq dry."

[lyonn]

22. Well lordy, lordy, cheney found Nixon's speech, re: Vietnam

[GreenZoneLT]

23. That guy gets more like Dr. Strangelove every day

Or Gen. Buck Turgidson.

Any day now, he's going to say, "Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed. But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops. Uh, depending on the breaks."

[lligrd]

24. Cheney Actually Said The Word Honor

And lightening didn't strike him. Some thing's definitely wrong with the system.

[DearAbby]

25. where have I heard this shit before?

Did we all collectively stepped into a time machine back to nixon era?

[symbolman]

26. Fuck HONOR

I want my GODDAMNED MONEY BACK that YOU STOLE you fucking GHOUL!!!

I demand that all MONEY spent during this Iraq fiasco be accounted for, if you can't account for it YOU GO TO JAIL.

If you HAVE any of it, WE WANT IT BACK IN THE TREASURY.

If it is found in a bank on an Island some where, then YOU GO TO JAIL, and We SEIZE IT.

EVERY LAST DIME.

WE WANT OUR MONEY BACK, NOW!! You fucking CROOK!!

What's Next, "I AM NOT A CROOK!" !!?? :)

[SalmonChantedEvening]

27. Cheyney had the "honor" of five deferments.

It's about time he zipped it where 'honor' is concerned.

Done right = his pockets full of $$

:argh:

[Hubert Flottz]

28. They did that in the early 90s.

But the Dick had to go back and steal their oil.

Edit...Dick there is no honor among thieves!

[Disturbed]

29. This treasonous Asshole has the nerve to talk about honor?

He has no shame or honor.

[mwb970]

30. Sorry Dick, that train has sailed. /nt

[spanone]

31. You mr. cheney have no honor whatsoever. You are a traitor to our nation.

You are a prick. You are a low life MoFo. Shut the fuck up, Go fuck yourself. Get out of our lives.

[sinkingfeeling]

32. Why? There was no honor going in or since we've been occupying them.

[Fire Walk With Me]

33. If we survive, one day we'll run this stuff as high comedy.

If they perceive weakness and then attack, it explains 9/11 perfectly.

[Atman]

34. We're turning the corner on the last throes!

STFU, Dick.

.

[dogday]

35. They need to ship Cheney to Iraq and

then he can tell us all about honour.

[dysfunctional press]

36. that might still be possible, IF cheney and bush are tried for war crimes...

and given the same fate in the same gallows as saddaam.

[treestar]

37. If this moran had any honor, he'd resign

What a tool

:puke:

[knight_of_the_star]

39. Haven't heard that one before

Oh wait, maybe I have. Wasn't that Nixon's excuse or something?

[wicket]

40. Hey Cheney, were your 5 deferments "honorable"?

Especially for a chickenhawk such as yourself?

:eyes:

[malaise]

41. Too late

Invade a sovereign country based on lies, occupy, loot, plunder, rape and kill and then seek honour. Cheney is one sick fugg. :puke:

[sakabatou]

42. Leave with honor?

We didn't even go in with honor!