Via ABC News (Cheney: ‘Full Speed Ahead’ on Iraq) comes a remarkable statement:
“We’ve got the basic strategy right,” Cheney told George Stephanopoulos in an interview to be broadcast Sunday on “This Week.”
While there is a legitimate position that would state that withdrawal is not the best course of action, to decalre that “We’ve got the basic strategy right” is utterly, totally remarkable.
Of course, the Vice President stated over a year ago that the insurgency was “in its last throes”–a fact that was highly questionable at the time and utterly laughable at the moment. As such, his ability to assess the situation is dubious, to put it mildly.
Indeed, I have to agree with Michael J.W. Stickings:
This isn’t stubbornness. It’s delusion.
Indeed. I am not sure what else you can call it. The old defense of the administration that they were seeing the whole picture while we were only getting the bad news from the MSM holds no water. The situation in Iraq is dire and yet the administration continues to want to assert that everything is fine.
Wow,
You would think that he would wait until next weekend to make such a statement. An undecided who is worried that the Democrats would “cut and run” would have to take serious pause when they relaize that the official position of the GOP is that everything is OK over in Iraq.
If I were the DCCC and the DSCC, I would be cutting ads right now to run on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday that has that quote as the centerpiece. As a Democrat that is exactly the last thing I want a voter to hear before they go into the election booth. I don’t think there is anyone out there that believes if that is the question of this election, the Democrats will win a solid victory on Tuesday.
Comment by SoloD — Saturday, November 4, 2024 @ 12:31 pm