Unbelievable: Cheney (!) Tired of Fools
David Ignatius has a remarkable quote in his column today:
"Over the years, he got tired of suffering fools," says one longtime Cheney friend. "He thinks it's all BS."
BS? I'll show you some BS:
Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us.
You want BS? Here is some BS:
(Videotape, March 16, 2003):MR. RUSSERT: And even though the International Atomic Energy Agency said he does not have a nuclear program, we disagree.
VICE PRES. CHENEY: I disagree, yes. And you’ll find the CIA, for example, and other key parts of our intelligence community, disagree.
And we believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons. I think Mr. ElBaradei, frankly, is wrong.
More?
VICE PRES. DICK CHENEY: My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.
More?
MR. RUSSERT: The Washington Post asked the American people about Saddam Hussein, and this is what they said: 69 percent said he was involved in the September 11 attacks. Are you surprised by that?VICE PRES. CHENEY: No. I think it’s not surprising that people make that connection.
MR. RUSSERT: But is there a connection?
VICE PRES. CHENEY: We don’t know. . . . We learned . . . that there was a relationship between Iraq and al-Qaeda that stretched back through most of the decade of the ’90s . .
More?
(Videotape, March 16, 2003):MR. RUSSERT: The army’s top general said that we would have to have several hundred thousand troops there for several years in order to maintain stability.
VICE PRES. CHENEY: I disagree. To suggest that we need several hundred thousand troops there after military operations cease, after the conflict ends, I don’t think is accurate. I think that’s an overstatement.
More?
[September 14, 2003] I still remain convinced that the judgment that we’ll need “several hundred thousand for several years” is not valid.
More BS:
I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency."
And the piece de resistance:
[Iraq] will be an enormous success story.
I think the whole country is tired of the damned fools that pretend to run it - the worst Administration in history.
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