Cheney: 'Full Speed Ahead' on IraqVice President Tells ABC News That Election, Public Sentiment Will Not Influence War Policy
By ED O'KEEFE
Nov. 3, 2006 GÇö - Four days before the election, as Republican candidates battle to save their seats in Congress amid a backlash over the war in Iraq, Vice President Dick Cheney told ABC News the administration is going "full speed ahead" with its policy."We've got the basic strategy right," Cheney told George Stephanopoulos in an interview to be broadcast Sunday on "This Week."
***October was one of the deadliest months in Iraq for U.S. troops. Cheney said that while the administration's policy may not be popular, "This is the right thing for us to be doing."
In the most recent ABC News/Washington Post poll, 57 percent of Americans said that the war was not worth fighting. The poll also showed President Bush's job approval rating dropped to 37 percent, the second-lowest mark of his presidency.
Cheney said that even with pollsters predicting that Democrats would likely make gains in both houses of Congress Tuesday, voter sentiment would not influence Bush's Iraq policy.
"It may not be popular with the public -- it doesn't matter in the sense that we have to continue the mission and do what we think is right. And that's exactly what we're doing," Cheney said. "We're not running for office. We're doing what we think is right."
Gee, and I thought this was a democracy.
Now the neocons are turning on themelves. I have zero symnpathy for them -- but it's interesting to see what they say about Bush.
First Reaction to Vanity Fair Report
Cheney also gave his first reaction to the Vanity Fair report that two of the Pentagon's strongest supporters of the war, Richard Perle and Ken Adelman, now say they would not have supported the invasion if they had known how incompetently the administration would handle it.
Cheney said, "I haven't seen the piece I'm not going to comment on it. I think there is no question that it is a tough war, but it is also the right thing to do," he said. "And it is very important that we complete the mission."
Uh, isn't complete the mission the same thing as stay the course?
I'm going to Sunday only (for the comics) right after Nov. 7.
Bush and the GOP will probably use a guilty verdict in this trial to their political advantage by trying to manipulate people's emotions over the things that Saddam Hussein did which we all know were bad but did NOT justify unilateral pre-empive action in starting the Iraq war!
Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld have all admitted that they are going to "stay the course" in Iraq as far as their future policies are concerned and that is exactly what people should be voting on next Tuesday!
Hussein Verdict Near After Trial With 'Serious Shortcomings'
By Ellen Knickmeyer
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, November 4, 2006; Page A01
BAGHDAD, Nov. 3 -- The Americans serving as legal advisers for Saddam Hussein's trial likened it to the judgment at Nuremberg. But as the trial nears its conclusion, with announcement of a verdict scheduled for Sunday, they admit the reality turned out messier...
ABC NEWS & VIDEO: Cheney: 'Full Speed Ahead' on Iraq & No Change in Iraq Policy
The photo below is from the Redskins official website, advertising one of their cheerleaders. Very nice photo, in my opinion. Now, she's not posing nude -- which Playboy girls do. However, there's no indication the party Ford attended was anything other than your typical corporate Super Bowl party, except that bunnies were present.
I have not been able to figure out what the big deal is about Ford, or anyone else, attending a Playboy party. Do you think George Allen objects to Redskins' photos like this?
