Cheney: Katrina was "a bit of a distraction"

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Cheney concedes failure to boost backing for war

Posted 1/14/06

By Kenneth T. Walsh

Vice President Cheney admits the administration fell behind the curve in the debate over Iraq last year, allowing its adversaries to attack current policy without an adequate response and focusing on other issues.


Neither Cheney nor President Bush plans to make that mistake again. In an interview with U.S. News, Cheney said, "You do have to keep a sustained campaign going. There's no question about it. Last fall, obviously, there were a lot of other items on the agenda. We went through the whole exercise with Katrina and the hurricanes and disaster relief and so forth that was, I suppose, a bit of a distraction. But it is important to try to maintain public support for what we're doing out there."

On the road stumping for the administration's Iraq policy, the veep says he gets a good reaction almost wherever he goes. "I find when I get out around the country and talk with people about it, that most of the ones I interact with are very understanding and very supportive. That doesn't mean, obviously, that everybody agrees with the policy. Clearly, there are a number of folks who don't. But I think if they have time to think about it, presented with the question, 'Do you think we ought to immediately withdraw from Iraq?' I think the vast majority of Americans would say no."

But Cheney–apparently hoping to lower voter expectations in advance of the midterm elections in November–is warning that there are big challenges ahead in Iraq.

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http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/060114/14cheney.htm

[Maggie_May]

1. Does someone want to give Dick a clue

The gulf coast being destroyed is more than a distraction.

[No Exit]

2. They say Cheney feuds with Barbara Bush?? Hell, he might be her twin

They think just alike. Remember what she had to say about the Katrina victims...

[robbedvoter]

3. Hey, Dick - happy MLK day to you too!

When is the lightening bolt going to struck here?

[No Exit]

17. I'm guessing that MLK's death, and Sharon's illness, are probably

ranked by him as "distractions", too.

[Flying Dream Blues]

4. Horrible excuse for a human being. Just sickening. nt

[Botany]

5. Clueless

1.5 million homeless
at least 5,000 dead
and America looses part of it's society & history

A distraction?

[npincus]

6. idiot

[iamahaingttta]

7. Time to...

Ass the Ass.

[cliss]

8. As I recall, Dick Cheney went down

to New Orleans a few days after the disaster. Even then, he called it the "Katrina Exercise". What in the hell does he mean exercise? Like a military exercise? He's never been in the military.

I think he means 'distraction'. And he makes it clear: they were not prepared for Katrina. They did not want to deal with Katrina. That hurricane blew into the White House and scattered all of their plans to the wind.

If you listen closely, they will tell you exactly who they are. Evil to the core.

[Wind Dancer]

10. "Katrina exercise" jumped out at me immediately.

It makes you wonder if the exercises meant "stand down" and don't allow food, water or rescues until "determined" by FEMA or the boyking. These people are so sinister it makes you wonder why they were all so "busy" while thousands drowned.

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15. And while Dick was in Mississippi, a doctor told him, "Go fuck yourself,

Mr. Cheney".

It was beautiful. Just yelled it from the crowd.

[DesertRat]

9. What a pig

[Crunchy Frog]

11. Well, you do tend to get a "good reaction"

when your audiences consist of hand picked supporters. Leonid Brezhnev used to get a good reception wherever he used to go in the Soviet Union too.

God, what a bunch of sickos.:puke:

[Libby2]

12. fucking maggot

[otohara]

13. Blame Katrina For Their Marketing Faliures on Iraq

that's just pitiful. How's the insurgency going Mr. Cheney?

[Contrary1]

14. Interesting word coming out of Big Dick's mouth...

"...I think when we look back 10 years from now that '05 will have been a seminal year, if you will, to the development of democracy in Iraq."

Since "seminal" has more than one meaning, I choose to interpret it as the obvious.

2005...The year Bushco continued f*&king up in Iraq.

[No Exit]

16. It's been a seminal year to the increase of the Cheney personal fortune

That's for sure.