You really have to wonder what this poor man is thinking.
In Wilmington, Ohio, on Monday, Cheney said: “In the weeks and months ahead we’ve got to be prepared to deal with a difficult situation which our guys are dealing with right now even as we speak, and they will continue to do that as we get more and more Iraqis into the effort over there too. I think it’s been a remarkable success story to date when you look at what’s been accomplished overall. I think the president deserves great credit for it.” [emphasis added]
Before I started pulling what’s left of my hair out, I was pleased to see that Kerry and Edwards were, fortunately, all over it.
Kerry in Green Bay: “”Vice President Cheney called the Iraq war a ‘remarkable success story.’ They don’t see it; they don’t get it; they can’t fix it.”
Edwards in Minneapolis: “Dick Cheney called Iraq a ‘remarkable success’. Yesterday we learned at that 380 tons of explosives were missing in Iraq. Dick Cheney calls this a ‘remarkable success’. These are exactly the kind of explosives the terrorists want. Now these explosives are out there and we don’t know who’s got them. And Dick Cheney calls them a ‘remarkable success’.”
Fine responses, to be sure. But every time we hear or see BC04 saying something like this, we should remember this quote:
The [senior Bush advisor] said that guys like me were “in what we call the reality-based community,” which he defined as people who “believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.” I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. “That’s not the way the world really works anymore,” he continued. “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”