John Nichols (The Nation): Cheney's Cheerleading Falls Flat

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Even as President Bush was trying, once more on Sunday, to spin the fantasy that the
Iraq invasion and occupation are some kind of success, Vice President
Dick Cheney's visit to Iraq confirmed the truth of the mess that this military misadventure has created.

The vice president's "surprise" visit to Iraq -- which, coming shortly after voting in the latest of the country's quickie elections had finished, was about as surprising as Cheney's repetition of the administration's "stay-the-course" mantra -- was a public-relations disaster.

Why?

Because the vice president actually came into contact with the people his fantasies regarding Iraq -- remember Cheney's pre-war promise that U.S. troops would be "greeted as liberators" -- had put in harm's way.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/143696

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1. Iraqi soldiers

Why were the Iraqi soldiers carrying imaginary weapons? Because someone thought they might shoot Cheney?




Cher

[No Exit]

4. That's what I think. Seriously!

[freesqueeze]

2. Just a Question...

Can Cheney raise his head up off his chest?

He looks as if his neck has given out.

C'mon Dick! HOLD YOUR HEAD UP.

[cliss]

3. Why Cheney?

That's what I can't understand. I recall Cheney's famous last words, "the insurgency is in its last throes". "They will greet us as liberators", "we will free them".

The man is not an inspiring speaker. His head hangs down, as if he's looking at the floor. His voice is flat, monotone. He's ugly. He looks like Humpty Dumpty. When he smiles (or tries to) his mouth curls up in a horrid sneer.

He can't even inspire me to take a dump. And they use HIM to go speak to the troops, to give them the courage, the inspiration to continue with their thankless job? When he never served.

Are they that inept?