“weeks rather than months,” the fight would “go relatively quickly,” and “I think things have gotten so bad inside Iraq, … my belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators,” one has to wonder, will he ever get it? What do you do when the foreign policy that was doomed from its inception – the policy you lied about in order to sell – actually fails?
For the Iraqi people, April 8 marked the inauspicious fourth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad. According to numerous news sources, in response to the clarion call of the powerful Shiite cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr, tens of thousands of Iraqis peacefully marched through the streets of Najaf, calling for American’s to “Get out, get out occupier.” We are now four years into this quagmire, with over 3,200 American soldiers dead, over 24,000 American soldiers wounded and over 600,000 Iraqis dead and wounded. This is taking years, not weeks or months, and it does not sound as though the Americans have been greeted as liberators. In the context of this reality, Vice President Cheney continues to tell anyone who will listen that al-Qaeda was operating in Iraq before the US invaded in 2003, even though declassified Pentagon reports refute these assertions.
In spite of the half-truths and lies that the vice president has told the American people about this war, he finally said something right, but even when he’s right, he’s wrong! He recently told an audience that you cannot win a war if you tell your enemy the day and time that you are going to quit. No truer words have ever been spoken. The problem with VP Cheney’s statement is the implication that the so-called “war” has not already been lost. What do you do when your failed policy actually fails?
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