Cheney makes surprise visit to Iraq »
Posted by: JamesMarcus 5 months, 3 weeks ago121 Comments Report this Story
Vice President Dick Cheney opened a new U.S. push for political unity in Iraq on an unannounced visit Monday, just ahead of the fifth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion. Cheney landed at Baghdad International Airport, then flew by helicopter into the dusty, heavily secured Green Zone.
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nikkibabe5 months, 3 weeks ago
Here is the difference.
Iranian President visited Iraq with his plans known weeks in advance. He drove in a regular sedan from Airport, was accorded a guard of honor by Iraqi troops and children presented him with flowers.
These American Congressmen & Bush/Cheney have to go there unannounced and in secrecy, get holed up in military protected green zone, meet only US military and Iraqi politicians. All this in a 24 hour period. Bush does not even venture to go to the green zone. He lands in a secluded desert air base and takes off.
All this with ordinary Iraqi people living without electricity, drinking water, most of the schools and markets bombed and destroyed.
Does someone see a tragedy here?
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libsRfunny5 months, 3 weeks ago
"Here is the difference.
Iranian President visited Iraq with his plans known weeks in advance."
Here is the difference, Iran is funding and arming terrorists and, according to your account its president used a shield of children as well as armed troops, like so many cowardly terrorists.
Also, you assume you know how Cheney arrived versus how the Iranian president arrived, which shows you really don't know anything ;)
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wtagg5 months, 3 weeks ago
"according to your account its president used a shield of children as well as armed troops, like so many cowardly terrorists."
This may have been a bit of artistic license and an assumption. This comment is not based on established fact.
Should we all assume that you will acknowledge that you "don't know anything" based on your benchmark?
That assumption would indicate that all of us don't know anything, but in this case, it would be true.
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djrevelky5 months, 3 weeks ago
And here comes the irony...
The Iraqi people would have electricity, water, and functioning markets and schools IF the Iranian President would quit arming opposition groups!
Could he have been greeted by the Iraqi's that he is arming and helping to kill Americans and their fellow Iraqis? Probably.
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raats66625 months, 3 weeks ago
The Iraqi people could ALSO have electricity, water, schools, hospitals, doctors and over a million of their countrymen if the Bush/Cheney Administration hadn't invaded a sovereign nation that never once asked for our help....who never once attacked our country or our people....who never once had ANY role in causing harm to the citizens on the United States.
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vor5 months, 3 weeks ago
The "Master of the World" has set out on a peacekeeping mission. Could anything be more contradictory?
Cheney must see Iraq as a total disaster, we should have been finished here 5 years ago and in Cheney's vision been somewhere in the Phillipines cleaning up the last of the Islamic vermin by now. But so much for plans! What a disgrace he is...and he is the one they select to talk about reconciliation? What a p-ss poor role model!
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vor5 months, 2 weeks ago
It is still an idealogical failure. I don't think it is purely wealth that influences Cheney. He is a pure megalomaniac. Money represents power and certainly power is gained by enriching those who entrust in you. But Cheney is mad in a different way. His is the one and only correct way. There is no need for argument or compromise. Yet his concept of "total war" has failed. Bogged down in Iraq and as yet unable to proceed forward into Iran. One can only wonder at what might might have occurred if there were no insurgency in Iraq, no ancient religious hatred, no sectarian divide. Yet it was the failure to note such matters that brought the whole enterprise down. Cheney knows he has limited time. He may still get 4 more years of influence if McCain wins the presidency. It would be nice to think McCain would discount his advice but in truth he has always played along well with the neocons. The torture issue being the lone exception.
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nikkibabe5 months, 3 weeks ago
A "peacemaker" with cluster bombs and Iraqi blood in his pockets!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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crespi5 months, 3 weeks ago
He must teach them in the ways and evil manipulations of the the UNITARY EXECUTIVE.
BLOODLINE is THE MOST IMPORTANT THING to them, in aristocracy, in Eugenics, and in cross generational malfeasance.
Even if one rogue daughter has gone gay, Cheney MUST SHOW STRENGTH AND "UNITY."
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nikkibabe5 months, 3 weeks ago
Quote:
"Here is the difference, Iran is funding and arming terrorists and, according to your account its president used a shield of children as well as armed troops, like so many cowardly terrorists.".
USA by invading and occupying a muslim country has earned itself the right to be called "BIGGEST TERRORIST". It is now "on par" with Al Qaeda, Taliban, Hamas & Hezbollah for having killed thousands of innocent Iraqi men, women & children.
I wonder how neo cons are complaining when Iran is fighting the terrorists and occupiers in Iraq!!!!!!!!!!!!
Get Real neo con!
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nikkibabe5 months, 3 weeks ago
There is a total economic & infrastructure collapse within USA.
... and this moron war monger goes to Iraq to assure them of continued American help with borrowed money from China.
Hello............ Is any dumb neo conservative up and listening there? What do you guys tell people who are losing their houses, jobs, medical insurance? What are you going to tell poor Americans in Mississippi & Lousiana who still don't have a roof over their heads after 3 years? What are you going to tell people who are faced the prospect of a $5 per gallon for gas and 100% increase in cost of food items?
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Jaydee405 months, 3 weeks ago
I agree with most of the comments posted here on this thread and am well known for slamming Bush. I can't help but feel George W Bush is just like Lee Harvey Oswald, a patsy with limited mental abilities and no real idea what the real plans are. What one must wonder is even as dimwitted as he is can't he see the destruction now happening to his country and want to stop it?
The American Constitution and the Republic were an experiment at a new form of government and I think most would admit it has failed. Any government that allows it's leaders to break laws or their agencies to do so should be brought down and if the provisions are not there to do it then it clearly fails to be a responsible and civilized government. So much for the second amendment America.
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djrevelky5 months, 3 weeks ago
Wow....from bashing Bush to strict, pessimistic, anti-Americanism?
How has the government failed? The US Constitution was not written to create a government that provides cradle to the grave 100% worry free care of its citizens.
Yes, thousands of Americans are losing their homes...through their own stupidity I might add. But millions more still own their homes perfectly fine. If over half of the country is making it day to day fine then the government is not a failure. It might not be working as intended, or as wished, but it is not a failure.
The Constitution has not failed the American people, nor has the government. The American people have failed the Constitution though. We are the failures.
We constantly elect corrupt politicians. We defend them just because the lil' R or D that is beside their name. When one breaks the saw instead of demanding their seat we say it was a stupid law anyway or something like that.
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engineer5 months, 3 weeks ago
I hope didn't demoralize the troops more than they have been. the troops have suffered enough
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Charlson5 months, 3 weeks ago
Didn't know there were quails in Iraq. Tell those around him to be ever vigilant.
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markmawn25 months, 3 weeks ago
He's probably there to check on the progress of his "palace".
http://wheresmyamerica.files.wordpress.com/2007...
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Poulenc5 months, 3 weeks ago
"But as we move forward, the Iraqi people should know that they will have the unwavering support of President Bush and the United States in consolidating their democracy," Cheney said.
And a great wave of relief swept the land....
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joeblowe5 months, 3 weeks ago
I think possibly the MOST important thing to note here is the impending 5 year anniversary of this fiasco. FIVE YEARS citizens. Five years in a place we don't belong, doing things we ought not be doing, spending money we don't have. At least on previous occasions when the U.S. overthrew one government in favor of another, there was a replacement ready to take over control. Apparently THIS time that little detail was overlooked. Along with thousands of others.
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Candida5 months, 3 weeks ago
joeblowe: "At least on previous occasions when the U.S. overthrew one government in favor of another, there was a replacement ready to take over control. Apparently THIS time that little detail was overlooked."
I don't think it was overlooked; it just didn't matter because there was no intention to ever leave.
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DrBenway5 months, 3 weeks ago
Imagine what Cheney's conversations in Iraq must be like?
"Ehhh, so... lost your two children and your arm, huh? Well... that's funny, I'm doing just fine! Heh, heh, heh! You think you're bad, you should see the guy I went huntin' with back a few years ago. Heh, heh, heh!"
I typically never refer to people as "evil". Evil is a black-and-white term that Neo-Cons like to throw around. But Dick Cheney is a f*cking, evil, black-hearted, cold-blooded sonofabitch if I ever saw one.
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markmawn25 months, 3 weeks ago
I think the picture should have a caption. "Wanna see something scary? Watch the devil come out of my mouth".
Or, "watch the alien spring forth from my pacemaker".
Beelezebub is done with this body. He just wanted to leave it where he found it.
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STronnes5 months, 3 weeks ago
I wonder how much of this "visit" has to do with briefing the Iraqis and the Saudis as to our plans for Iran. I realize that one of the Generals has said that there are no plans right now to invade Iran. Nothing was said about whether our war ships have plans to attack Iran from the air.
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