{"id":13828,"date":"2007-12-06T11:10:59","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T16:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/13828.html"},"modified":"2007-12-06T11:10:59","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T16:10:59","slug":"last-throes-cheney-believes-iraq-will-be-an-enormous-success-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/last-throes-cheney-believes-iraq-will-be-an-enormous-success-story\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Last Throes’ Cheney believes Iraq ‘will be an enormous success story’"},"content":{"rendered":"

In October 2004, as the administration’s Iraq policy was failing on all fronts, Dick Cheney bragged that Iraq was “a remarkable success story<\/a>.” In June 2005, in this midst of devastating violence in Iraq, Cheney bragged that Iraq “will be an enormous success story<\/a>.” And now, in December 2007, Cheney is convinced that Iraq “will be an enormous success story<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Vice President Cheney today predicted Iraq will be a self-governing democracy by the time he leaves office, calling the current U.S. surge strategy “a remarkable success story” that will be studied for years to come.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Politico, Cheney offered a remarkably upbeat view of Iraq, despite continued violence and political paralysis in the war-torn nation.<\/p>\n

Cheney, who has been widely criticized for overly optimistic — and sometime flat wrong — projections in the past, sounded as confident as ever that the Bush administration will achieve its objectives in Iraq.<\/p>\n

“I am fairly confident we’ll have [Iraq] in a good place, where we’ll be able to look back on it and say, ‘That was the right decision. It was a sound decision going into Iraq,'” Cheney told us in a 40-minute White House interview.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Cheney, who has been wrong about every aspect of Iraq policy since 1992, added that by the middle of January 2009, it will be clear that “we have in fact achieved our objective in terms of having a self-governing Iraq that’s capable for the most part of defending themselves, a democracy in the heart of the Middle East, a nation that will be a positive force in influencing the world around it in the future.”<\/p>\n

Asked if all of these remarkable accomplishments can be achieved in just 14 months, Cheney replied, “Yes, sir.”<\/p>\n

And since the Vice President has a great track record of making reasonable, accurate predictions about Iraq, there’s certainly no reason to laugh, mock, and point at Cheney as some kind of misguided, mendacious fool, right? Oh wait….
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\nAmanda, who had the temerity to point out that the Bush gang has been promising a flourishing democracy in Iraq for five years, highlighted some of Cheney’s greatest hits<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We would act in that same spirit after a regime change in Iraq. With our help, a liberated Iraq can be a great nation once again. Iraq is rich in natural resources and human talent, and has unlimited potential for a peaceful and a prosperous future. Our goal would be an Iraq that has territorial integrity, a government that is democratic and pluralistic, a nation where the human rights of every ethnic and religious group are recognized and respected.<\/b> [8\/26\/02]<\/p>\n

RUSSERT: And you are convinced the Kurds, the Sunnis, the Shiites will come together in a democracy? […]
\nCHENEY: I think the prospects of being able to achieve this kind of success, if you will, from a political standpoint, are probably better<\/b> than they would be for virtually any other country and under similar circumstances in that part of the world. [3\/16\/03] […]<\/p>\n

The progress we’ve seen in Iraq has been superb, and we can be confident going forward because the Iraqi people value their own liberty and are determined to choose their own destiny…. The victory of freedom in Iraq will inspire democratic reformers in other lands.<\/b> [10\/3\/05]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s almost as if Mr. Last Throes<\/a> has some kind of history of exaggerating progress in Iraq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In October 2004, as the administration’s Iraq policy was failing on all fronts, Dick Cheney bragged that Iraq was “a remarkable success story.” In June 2005, in this midst of devastating violence in Iraq, Cheney bragged that Iraq “will be an enormous success story.” And now, in December 2007, Cheney is convinced that Iraq “will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}