Cheney: ‘General Overall Situation’ In Iraq Is Going ‘Remarkably Well’
Cheney: ‘General Overall Situation’ In Iraq Is Going ‘Remarkably Well’
Rush Limbaugh interviewed Vice President Cheney on his show today. At one point, Limbaugh asked Cheney to respond to growing frustration over U.S. efforts in Iraq.
Cheney acknowledged there is a “natural level of concern out there” because fighting didn’t end “instantaneously.” (Next month, the war will have lasted longer than U.S. fighting in World War II.) Cheney then pointed to various news items to paint a positive picture of conditions in Iraq and concluded, “If you look at the general overall situation, they’re doing remarkably well.”
Full transcript:
CHENEY: Well, I think there’s some natural level of concern out there because in fact, you know, it wasn’t over instantaneously. It’s been a little over three years now since we went into Iraq, so I don’t think it’s surprising that people are concerned.
On the other hand, this government has only been in office about five months, five or six months now. They’re off to a good start. It is difficult, no question about it, but we’ve now got over 300,000 Iraqis trained and equipped as part of their security forces. They’ve had three national elections with higher turnout than we have here in the United States. If you look at the general overall situation, they’re doing remarkably well.
It’s still very, very difficult, very tough. Nobody should underestimate the extent to which we’re engaged there with this sort of, at present, the “major front” of the war on terror. That’s what Osama bin Laden says, and he’s right.
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And the Titanic was only a shipping accident.
And the Bay of Pigs liberated Cuba
etc, etc, etc.
October 17th, 2006 at 3:08 pmand how did you come up with that assessment? the green zone? come here so i can spit in your face sorry peckerwood.
October 17th, 2006 at 3:09 pmCheney is certifiable. Truly.
October 17th, 2006 at 3:10 pmIt is going remarkably well for him. Just think of all the money he and Halliburton have made off of it. Money money money! It’s all about the money and oil! Meanwhile, Halliburton provided our military (the troops they claim to care so much about) contaminated water to bathe in. Contaminated water. Not to mention how this administration has short changed the troops seven different ways from Sunday since this money making scheme of theirs got started.
October 17th, 2006 at 3:11 pmThe Republican Party is in its last throes if you will.
Goper’s Lament
October 17th, 2006 at 3:12 pmThey must have had some oxycotin party before that interview. Cheney is in La-la-land.
October 17th, 2006 at 3:12 pmIsn’t that great that Cheney gets to propagandize the positives about Iraq with a mouthpiece for the neocons. Yet, the rest of the mainstream media or as Rush says at least every ten minutes “The Drive-by media” has it all wrong? Bet that was a tough interview huh?
October 17th, 2006 at 3:14 pmMaybe RUsh and all the right wing radio hosts can do one of their radio pow wows over in Iraq. You know where they gather all the right wing radio guys and let them interview republican after republican ina sort of round robing event. I think the square where the Sadaam statue was would be a nice place to do it. Since things are going so wimingly security can be handled by local Iraqii police.
October 17th, 2006 at 3:19 pmWell you know what THAT means! More torture of suspects! Jokes on you bitches! HAHAHAHA!!!
October 17th, 2006 at 3:20 pmAnd Compton is a nice place to visit in the Spring time.
October 17th, 2006 at 3:21 pmApollo 13 to Houston: “Our overall situation is Remarkably Well”
Hindenberg Captain to Mooring Staff: “Our overall situation is Remarkably Well”
Napolean at Waterloo: “Our overall situation is Remarkably Well”
October 17th, 2006 at 3:21 pmIs Douglas Feith still on the White House payroll?
October 17th, 2006 at 3:23 pmCheney needs to step out of the bunker once in awhile and check out reality. The families of the fallen won’t be agreeing with shooter Cheney’s viewpoint of Iraq.
October 17th, 2006 at 3:23 pmTranslation:
“Yeah, I’m making loads of friggin’ cash off you suckers…
…we’re going to stay in Iraq until Halliburton, GE, Bechtel and I can’t squeeze another nickel out of your sorry as*es..
…what are you gonna do about it…
…sue me?
…We’re RICH bi*ches!”
October 17th, 2006 at 3:23 pmAnd, I would love to have some of the drugs that Cheney is taking… seems to keep out the realties of the world and I could use some of that right about now.
October 17th, 2006 at 3:24 pmThis is the same guy who keeps insisting that there is a link between Al Qaeda and Iraq. He lives in an alternate universe.
October 17th, 2006 at 3:24 pmAs verified by the meet and greet walking the streets?
Oh thats right he hasn’t been there.
October 17th, 2006 at 3:24 pmSo I have problem with saying the War has been going on for 4 years. The war was *over* when Saddam’s statue fell, or there about. Since then, we have been occupying Iraq and the occupation seems to going rather poorly, I might add.
And we might be involved in a “Global War on Terror” somewhere, but outside of upsetting Muslims, I’m not convinced that Iraq has anything to do with the GWoT.
October 17th, 2006 at 3:25 pmCheney and Halliburton will be staying in Iraq until all the oil is gone.
October 17th, 2006 at 3:27 pmWhat could turn out to be the third deadliest month for US troops since the start of the wars in Afghan and Iraq, and that is: “doing remarkably well.†Could Dickhead be any further removed from reality???
October 17th, 2006 at 3:30 pmWell….o’liely interviews bush,limpdong has cheney on…..75% of the American people say they are full of shit….I see DESPERATION!…
October 17th, 2006 at 3:30 pmVote for the lesser of 2 evils…..and then we’ll weed out the rest of the bad ones.
Oh, I get it! Iraq is doing so great that we don’t need to have 141,000 troops in that country, freeing them up to use in an invasion of Iran!
Way to go, Dick!
October 17th, 2006 at 3:31 pmProsecute L’il Dick…
…and PUS Limphog…
October 17th, 2006 at 3:35 pmI guess he should have said that the situation is relatively better than surrendering to terrorists.
October 17th, 2006 at 3:39 pmSomeone needs to inform Elmer Fudd we have long since stopped dining on the propaganda meals.
Remarkably well you say? Go there first dumbass. Care for some juice with your Crow Elmer?
October 17th, 2006 at 3:39 pmOh, never thought of it that way! This whole time, I expected the fighting to end instantaneously! Thanks for setting me straight, Cheney.
Now I can see Iraq for the great success that it is.
October 17th, 2006 at 3:40 pmSo they got Billy O helping GWB shovel shit, and Limpballs helping Cheney pack paper bags full of shit to be lit on each Iraqi’s doorstep.
Seems kinda desperate to me.
October 17th, 2006 at 3:41 pmOf course its going well. CHeney did say we would be greeted as liberators, haven’t we? Seriously, Cheney is so ungodly evil and limpdick rush nods his head in agreement with the BS spewing out of his mouth. I would love to see these two clowns driving around baghdad in an open top convertible, you know to wave to all their adoring fans.
October 17th, 2006 at 3:42 pmis there ANYBODY who believes Cheney’s bullshit any longer???
October 17th, 2006 at 3:43 pmI would like to see a Dave Chappelle skit on this. “we’re rich you bitches”.
Thanks for the idea Big Papa.
October 17th, 2006 at 3:44 pmReally unfair to the VP. What he said was:
Last month the Pentagon shipped over 30,000 pairs of Kevlar™ overalls to the troops, so he’s essentially correct. Anyhow, I’d be careful about criticizing the man, as he can now come to your house and torture you legally.
October 17th, 2006 at 3:44 pmIraq is getting better. From antiwar.com:
Tuesday: 46 Killed, 48 Injured Across Iraq
That is WAY WAY down.
October 17th, 2006 at 3:46 pm#8 Maybe RUsh and all the right wing radio hosts can do one of their radio pow wows over in Iraq. You know where they gather all the right wing radio guys and let them interview republican after republican ina sort of round robing event. I think the square where the Sadaam statue was would be a nice place to do it. Since things are going so wimingly security can be handled by local Iraqii police.
Comment by Mark — October 17, 2006 @ 3:19 pm
Funny you should mention that Mark. I believe on the 24th this month, the White House is allowing all the right wing radio programs onto the White House lawn to do a radio row. Cabinet members will be giving interviews, etc. NO progressive radio programs were invited to this event. So not in Iraq, but right here in DC. So much for the fairness doctrine. Bush also met privately with several of the serfs as well and let them kiss his ring and then bid them to do his bidding.
October 17th, 2006 at 3:46 pmThe GOP has come full circle - from “plausible deniability” to implausible denial.
October 17th, 2006 at 3:47 pmWhat a gutsy move. I can’t believe Cheney would venture into such hostile territory.
October 17th, 2006 at 3:47 pmTuesday: 46 Killed, 48 Injured Across Iraq
October 17th, 2006 at 3:48 pmTHINGS ARE GENERALLY WELL IN IRAQ (For Dick and his oil buddies)
The “democratically elected” government of Iraq has been given a deadline of December 1, 2006 to finish ans approve its legislation that will control the Iraqi oil industry.
The legislation is meant to determine, who will own the oil and what are the proper proceedures for foreign oil companies to apply to do business in Iraqi oil fileds.
Iraq is estimasted to have the largest oil supply in the world at 226 Billion barrels. If tapped, it could single handedly break the back of OPEC.
It is widely believed that Exxon-Mobil ($400 Million CEO Retirement), Chevron (Condi-Karzai), British Petroleum (Blair Bitch Project) and Shell will end up with the lion’s share of the oil conservatively estimated to be 67-70 percent.
Now tell me again, why are we in Iraq?
October 17th, 2006 at 3:48 pmThe problem is not that they are so far removed from reality. Like others have said on this thread: They’re making money and they’re in power. They KNOW what they’re doing. Some people talk about the Reps as if they have no brains, but the only stupid one that I can see on the republicans side is Bush himself. The rest of them are stone cold sober smart. The republicans have gained the house and the senate and are working on the supreme court and they’ll have the whitehouse for two more years. Stupid? No. Scary? YES! Their only slip up is miscalculating how far wrong Iraq would go. They tried too much too soon. Anti-Bush is turning into anti-republican and I don’t think they expected that.
To us it seems like they’ve got their heads in the sand, but I don’t see the rush to publicly call them on it. The media has been very reluctant to expose that sort of thing. They’re content with idealogical differences, not flat out calling a politician a liar, and you can practically hear the crickets chirping everytime they try to get a democrat to comment. They go through the motions of a dissenting opinion, but I don’t see the outrage.
October 17th, 2006 at 3:48 pmI guess he should have said that the situation is relatively better than surrendering to terrorists.
Comment by paul
Paul, do I really have to drag the Reagan bat out again? Geez, I just finished cleaning the gunk off from last night . . .
October 17th, 2006 at 3:49 pmThis should remove any doubts that Cheney is as crazy as a shithouse rat on PCP.
October 17th, 2006 at 3:50 pmLike Rush said; he’ll be posting the transcript on his website so the Drive-by-media can take his words and twist them.
October 17th, 2006 at 3:52 pmExamples of terrorist: George W Bush, aka Josef Stalin; Dick the shooter Cheney; and Donald “dementia” Rumsfeld. Now these folks are terrorist and I will never surrender to them.
“Be loyal to your country always, and to the government only when it deserves it.” - Mark Twain.
October 17th, 2006 at 3:53 pm#40 - grytpype
LOL - that was funny.
October 17th, 2006 at 3:54 pmA destroyed, as a unitary state, Iraq, occupation stretching as far as the eye can see, massive amounts of tax dollars transfered to his cronies, $9 billion stolen most of it by his fellow rethugs. Hell yes it’s going remarkably well for them
October 17th, 2006 at 3:55 pmAnd with Chimpy and Darth consistently expressing confidence in retaining Congress, just waiting on some “event” i.e. an October surprise. The event will be orchestrated and to be such a “grave threat”, the elections are suspended, and Bush declares martial law.
October 17th, 2006 at 3:55 pmOh, I get it now - over 650,000 dead Iraqis doesn’t mean squat, not to mention nearly 3,000 of our troops killed and over 20k maimed - and for what? The blood-sucking baby-killer Cheney and his gang are just warming up. These GOPerverts just never cease to amaze me. Why can’t Cheney the Terrible do humanity a favor and just die already?
October 17th, 2006 at 3:56 pmGotta keep reassuring the 33%.
October 17th, 2006 at 3:56 pmCheeks - I didn’t know that the “drive by media” actually had time to stop and read websites. They must be talented to drive and read websites without getting into an accident. But what would drug addict Rush know anyway.
October 17th, 2006 at 3:56 pmPaul,
YOU already have surrendered to the TRUE terrorists.
Who’s killed more Americans… OBL or GWB?
Who’s giving up freedoms, Americans or terrorists?
Don’t ya see they have won already, idiots like you running around crying wolf.
We’re at 3,000 troop dead in Iraq, and that doesn’t count those were could make it to say Germany and later died of complications. Those are not counted against the death toll in Iraq. How about the 60,000 Injured? MIssing a leg, missing an arm, and so on. no biggie eh?
Let’s not even count the Americans here who die every year because of lack of healthcare, as well as decreased regulations on things like arsenic in drinking water. We’ll pay for that for years to come.
October 17th, 2006 at 3:56 pmAs the sometimes CEO of the Halliburton War Corporation, any war that has provided this war profiteer with more money is going exceedingly well. Bush and Cheney duped an ignorant electorate into believing that they were the good guys when in reality anyone paying attention during their run for office new they were charlatans of the highest order. I recall when these idiots were telling the American people before they started their “war” that it would be of short duration, few lives lost, cost little and paid for with Iraqi oil. The war is over 3 years 7 months in length with no end in sight, tens of thousands killed and maimed and Bush and Cheney have squandered over $330,000,000,000 to date of our national treasury. Of course this all could not be accomplished without the support of the corrupt republican congress and idiots like Rash Lamebrain in the talk radio land.
October 17th, 2006 at 3:57 pmBusy news day for Bush and Cheney and the Republicans running for office.
October 17th, 2006 at 3:59 pmThey must be nervous about the upcoming election… trying to keep the spin on Iraq positive as opposed to truthful.
Nova16 - love that name “Rash Lamebrain”, good one.
October 17th, 2006 at 4:02 pmI wish the whole administration would take a ride through Baghdad in an unarmored HUMMVEE and see how well we’re doing. And take Ken Starr too.
October 17th, 2006 at 4:02 pmcheney is a dildo!
October 17th, 2006 at 4:03 pmCheney is either seriously nuts, or he is just trying to shore up the 25 or 30% of American cult members who are still with him. I vote for the second choice, but I am not too sure anymore. He might just be nuts.
October 17th, 2006 at 4:05 pmKeep on smilin Richard Bruce Cheney.
October 17th, 2006 at 4:09 pmYour time is shorter than you can imagine.
The payback will last longer than you can imagine.
#42. Joseph Kennedy, Charles Lindberg, Neville Chamberlain, etc…
October 17th, 2006 at 4:09 pmAM I THE ONLY ONE SICKENED BY THIS BS?
Do the 30% koolaid drinkers even beleive Cheney? I mean they might be a lot of things but are they this gulible? President Cheney should be put out to pasture after this election season. WHAT are these guys doing for the average Joe that makes folks listen to the BS from Rush, Hannity, O’Liely and the like and then run with it as if it is true? HELP!!!
Texas Juice.
October 17th, 2006 at 4:11 pmDarth Cheney is really Baghdad Bob?
Who would’ve thought it were true??? Until now, that is.
October 17th, 2006 at 4:12 pmDoes that 300,000 figure happen to include the brigade that was removed from duty for being hit-squads?
October 17th, 2006 at 4:15 pmOnly a few die hard trolls left…awwwww. Is this the best fox has got?
October 17th, 2006 at 4:15 pmtrolls: “Fox just announced that the sky is falling!” …jump on this, ‘It’s Clintons fault!’…..now git git…..
That’s OK. The only people who would listen to Limbaugh’s show are the 30% of idiots who still believe this shit anyway. No harm done for the 70% with a functioning brain stem who wrote Uncle Dick long ago.
October 17th, 2006 at 4:16 pmA recent poll suggests only 16% believe Cheney. One can assume they are the crooked cronies and feable minded.
October 17th, 2006 at 4:20 pmThen fly into Baghdad, for an ANNOUNCED VISIT. Instead of sneaking in like a weasel
October 17th, 2006 at 4:23 pmPaul, you are a pathetic joke
October 17th, 2006 at 4:30 pmCheney gave Rush an exclusive. Bush sat down with Bill O’Reilly for one of those tough interviews. Lieberman reported to have poured the coffee.
October 17th, 2006 at 4:30 pmI wonder if Cheney believes what he is saying or is he simply shameless? No objective person could claim that “they are doing remarkabley well” unless he’s talking about the insurgents.
It has to be dawning on even those closest to the Kool-Aid pitcher, that Iraq is pure hell on earth, and we made it that way.
According to Robert Bryce in an article for Salon:
Instead of the energy riches predicted by Wolfowitz, millions of Iraqis are now living in dire energy poverty. In Baghdad, there is little or no electricity, little or no motor fuel, and little or no kerosene for home heating. Moreover, according to energy expert Jim Placke, who has been following Iraq’s oil business since 1959 when he worked for the State Department in Baghdad, the situation appears to be getting worse.
The insurgents are targeting the energy infrastructure with increasing success, says Placke, who is a senior associate at Cambridge Energy Research Associates. “By doing so, they embarrass the coalition forces and the Iraqi government that they can’t keep gas stations supplied with motor fuel. It’s very disruptive and it makes the average Iraqi’s life that much more difficult.”
October 17th, 2006 at 4:32 pmUnbelieveable…at the very least there is outrage here. However, the majority of the citizens of this nation could care less. Where is the freaking outrage? There are actually still people like Paul???
October 17th, 2006 at 4:33 pmI think the shooter may be referring to the country as a whole here and he might be right from that angle *cough*….but lets assume he is parsing it that way….what he’s skipping over, is the fact that that little parcel of land called the “triangle†where 80% of the populace reside, kinda sucks….then again, the mortality rate may have brought the percentage down to only 50…..
October 17th, 2006 at 4:36 pmHuh. Maybe he means that Halliburton is doing “remarkably well” in terms of war profiteering.
October 17th, 2006 at 4:38 pmTricky Dick has it all wrong….the appropriate adjective according to Coulter is “swimmingly”!! hahaha! what a joke! In excess of 400,000 Iraqis killed is neither swimmingly nor classified as ‘remarkably well’ - is he on the same planet these days? Just wondering which one he’s living on…..I think I know the answer to that one though….It’s Uranus!
October 17th, 2006 at 4:40 pmNo doubt about that - it’s Halliburton which is going “remarkably well” - how do you spell: NO BID CONTRACT?? I call it corruption.
October 17th, 2006 at 4:40 pmIt must be very comfortable for many here at TP. The reason you cannot understand how the other half of the country thinks, is that you won’t venture outside to see. You can eventually make a decision to exercise your ideas with those that disagree with you or continue to surround yourselves with like-minded souls and retreat back into a pity party after the elections and wonder, why?
October 17th, 2006 at 4:49 pmFrom what i’ve read, the violence is spreading to the north and south and areas that were once thought of as safe havens are becoming increasingly dangerous.
On the other hand, the Iraq has turned into a virtual paradise for every terrorist wanna-be in the ME.
We’ve totally screwed Iraq, and there is is little or nothing we can do at this point, to make it better.
October 17th, 2006 at 4:49 pmHe lives in an alternate universe.
Comment by Republicans are the fear and smear party — October 17, 2006 @ 3:24 pm
I wish… Then we wouldn’t have to deal with him. Can we send him to one?
October 17th, 2006 at 4:54 pmPaul what other half of the country do you speak of? 60% of Americans are not in favor of this war. The King’s approval rating is 36% what half are you talking about? Besides, I’ve been to those sites and they all are full of Fox news type verbal wrestlemania, if you have a dissenting opinion you’re labled an appeaser, move to France or Canada and shouted down in all caps. I’d like to see you back here after the November elections to apologize and thank us for voting in a congress that will protect this country, your rights and have some respect for US and international law. But keep on carrying the ball for the “Bring on Armagedon” crowd.
October 17th, 2006 at 4:57 pm“That’s what Osama bin Laden says, and he’s right.”
Chilling that Cheney gets to quote Bin Laden …..
October 17th, 2006 at 5:01 pmHeadline:
Cheney says, “Bin Laden… Is Right.”
October 17th, 2006 at 5:02 pm#73
October 17th, 2006 at 5:08 pmActually, it’s only about 30% of the country that thinks differently from us. Of course, if you count the whole planet, then it’s only about 1% who disagree with us. And believe it or not, we have heard your side. It’s just that we, like the vast majority of citizens here and abroad, find your veiwpoint to be full of shit.
#76. approval ratings don’t indicate a change in ideology (the elections will be very close to 50%); if you’ve been dismissed on conservative sights, welcome to my world here; I guarantee that I will not move to Canada; and if there is some kind of landslide that sweeps democrats into power in the house and/or senate, I will be back here to say ‘I was wrong’. I’ve done it before. For you, I wouldn’t count your chickens before they’ve hatched. You’re not getting a clear picture here at TP.
October 17th, 2006 at 5:10 pmThat story about Halliburton acquiring the asbestos liabilities of Dresser Industries raises an interesting point…
Cheney KNEW that Dresser had the most massive liability issue on planet earth (he had to have known) yet decided to pay good money to bring Dresser’s problems under Halliburton’s tent.
This raises the question…who were the largest shareholders of Dresser - in need of a lifeboat to save their own personal bacon? Anyone named Bush? Anyone named Carlyle?
The deal went like this:
Cheney agrees for Halliburton to take on the Dresser asbestos liability.
It is determined that Bush and Cheney will be (s)elected, and that the PNAC plan will be implemented - using 9/11 as the essential pretext.
Ken Lay plays his role using his Enron smoke and mirrors tactics to create a faux energy crisis in California, causing the public to demand an energy-savvy administration be elected.
With the asbestos liability and other matters hanging in the balance, the election of 2000 simply had to be rigged in order for the plan to go in to effect.
Following the appointment of Bush and Cheney, the secret energy planning meeting established which oil companies would reap the rewards of the pending invasion of Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran.
The timing and the pretext were predetermined, and 9/11 was greenlighted for 9/11/2001. Cheney outsourced the implementation to Mossad, and ran the show from his bunker on D Day under the cover of preplanned drills simulating the exact attack that was proscribed, with NORAD as coconspirator. At least 50 administration officials and countless foreign agents were in on it.
Once the entire charade was concluded, the Administration generally, and Cheney specifically, had every reason in the world to blame Iraq.
The Afghanistan mission could not provide Halliburton with enough revenue to offset the massive asbestos liability claim. Iraq and Iran are essential wars in order to provide cover for the infusion of the billion of TAX DOLLARS necessary to both profit Halliburton for its actual work AND cover the massive asbestos liability claims.
Now you know why Halliburton was awarded the contracts without the need to bid for them. This was all prearranged.
NOTE: Private enterprise pushed its legal/financial obligations onto tax payers using war as the excuse.
The asbestos liability claims of Dresser Industries were ultimately paid by you and me, and our troops in the field, all to ensure that the investors in Dresser didn’t take the multibillion dollar loss.
Just one piece of a very large chessboard.
Hang them for TREASON.
October 17th, 2006 at 5:16 pmYou’re not getting a clear picture here at TP.
Comment by paul — October 17, 2006 @ 5:10 pm
I can’t believe I have to explain this to an adult.
This isn’t our only source for information. Unlike you, we read other sources. It isn’t disloyal, but intelligent to get your news from more than one source. Sheesh.
October 17th, 2006 at 5:17 pm.
9/11 WHISTLEBLOWER BOMBSHELL!!!
Military Sergeant Reveals The TRUTH OF 9/11:
http://www.v911t.org/SergeantLauroChavez.php
October 17th, 2006 at 5:18 pmThe reason you cannot understand how the other half of the country thinks, is that you won’t venture outside to see.
Comment by paul — October 17, 2006 @ 4:49 pm
Maybe I should introduce you to my in-laws, I bet you would feel at home with them: The Bible is literally true, the Earth is 6,000 years old, Noah’s Ark has been found at the top of Mount Ararat, Hindus and Buddhists are Devil worshippers, evolution is a hoax, and the Pope is the Devil incarnate.
I get plenty of different points of view, thank you. You are a joke.
October 17th, 2006 at 5:24 pmThe utmost nadir of Hell must contain a place that has been awaiting the members of this administration since the beginning of time. They are truly among the worst people in the history of the planet.
October 17th, 2006 at 5:28 pmBy 5-deferment Dickhead’s standards, Custer’s fight at the Little Big Horn was a brilliant victory-for Custer.
October 17th, 2006 at 5:29 pmI can’t believe I have to explain this to an adult.
Comment by unbelievable
Hence, your moniker.
October 17th, 2006 at 5:29 pmAs long as Cheney’s Oil Cartel pals get the Iraq crude, then Dicky is a happy ugly man > lol.
October 17th, 2006 at 5:29 pmAnd the Earth is flat!
October 17th, 2006 at 5:29 pm“spring time for..”
October 17th, 2006 at 5:30 pmWhat planet did Cheney fly in from. Wow the worlds flat…
October 17th, 2006 at 5:32 pmThe DNC, DSCC, etc., need to turn this clip into an attack ad post haste.
October 17th, 2006 at 5:39 pm#84. I don’t believe in any of it. I’m an agnostic. More proof that you need to get out more.
October 17th, 2006 at 5:39 pm“If you look at the general overall situation, they’re doing remarkably well.â€
I bet he really thinks so. After all, nobody in the Cheney clan has died as a result of the invasion and occupation of Iraq.
Out of sight, out of mind.
[…]we’re engaged there with this sort of, at present, the “major front†of the war on terror.
Even though nobody will tell us for sure if we are “winning” or “losing”.
This is an extensive engagement in a war where there is no measure of success. How ridiculous is that? What death toll is the American public willing to accept in this open-ended conflict?
October 17th, 2006 at 5:40 pmI don’t believe in any of it. I’m an agnostic. More proof that you need to get out more.
Comment by paul — October 17, 2006 @ 5:39 pm
More proof you are too obtuse to understand the point of my post, since *I* am the one who has regular, personal contact with people who hold views completely opposite to mine -hence laying to rest your idiotic rant about me “needing to get out more”.
October 17th, 2006 at 5:44 pmYet more evidence that the Bush Administration is in major denial. Could we ask for better campaign fodder? I hope Cheney campaigns around the country touting this message far and wide.
October 17th, 2006 at 5:48 pmi wonder where paul thinks one should go to get a “clearer” picture? faux snooze? i believe what cheney means is, considering what a shitty job they have done with this occupation, (that’s a completely different subject) and the atrocity perpetuated on our military and the Iraqi people by this regime, yeah, i guess one could say things are going “remarkably well,” not. making a few bucks to boot don’t hurt.
October 17th, 2006 at 5:48 pmIf Mr. Cheney is so confident it’s going well, I double-dog-dare him to go to Iraq himself - unarmed (because, duh, he doesn’t NEED protection) and stand ALONE in the middle of a Baghdad street.
Hey, I said ALONE! No SS (Secret Service, not Stormtroopers) available to coddle him.
Ouch. Gunshot wounds hurt.
I voted Republican once. In 1980. For John Anderson.
NEVER AGAIN.
Hear that, sissy-boy, or should I say, girly-man?
N*E*V*E*R
October 17th, 2006 at 5:51 pmBoth of these morons just open their mouths and shit starts tumbling out.
October 17th, 2006 at 5:54 pmFor those who doubt that the U.S. is in serious trouble, please find
a map of the Middle East. Locate Baghdad on the map and then find the
Iranian border.
Can you say Iran-Contra: Part 2. Iran just has to sneeze.
October 17th, 2006 at 5:55 pm#80 paul
if there is some kind of landslide that sweeps democrats into power in the house and/or senate, I will be back here to say ‘I was wrong’. I’ve done it before. For you, I wouldn’t count your chickens before they’ve hatched. You’re not getting a clear picture here at TP.
First off, if that happens and you come back here and say “I was wrong”, I promise not to taunt you. I’ll be amazed, but I will most certainly respect you for it.
Secondly, none of us lives here. And none of us travels around the country enough to be able to say how people are going to vote in every part of the country. But, I get my information in a lot of places. There are some places I won’t bother to look, Fox News for example, because I’ve seen so many lies and distortions coming from them. I won’t waste my time with Limbaugh, Hannity, etc. Those people don’t even attempt to deal in fact. Network news leaves out a lot. Newspapers do, too. That just leaves me with websites with reporting from serious and diligent investigative reporters.
As for polls, I wouldn’t put much stock in any one poll, but when you’ve got about a dozen different polling companies calling people all over the country, and it’s a different sample of 500 to 1,000 people every couple of weeks, and almost every one of them over the past two years is telling us that people in general don’t like Bush, they don’t believe Bush, and they think he’s doing a lousy job at just about everything, I think that’s a pretty fair indication of what the ‘people out there’ are thinking.
October 17th, 2006 at 6:02 pmIsn’t it more than a little ironical, more than a little moronic, more than a little disgraceful, more than a little demeaning, more than a little disrespectful to the meories of the 3,000 … that (dark side) Cheney, and his side-kick Bush are actually quoting OBL as an authority and as a reference for their disgraceful spin???!!!
And is it not at least equally disgraceful (etc) that the MSM simply parrot the Bush-sh.. and the Cheney-isms with not even a trace of irony. I guess that’s to be expected from the likes of Limbaugh but it’s remarkable how the same applies to so many on CNN and others.
October 17th, 2006 at 6:08 pmMay the Bushettes stick their “Netural” so far up their acts the sun don’t shine and their brains completely drain whatever sludge is left there - then we all can take a shower…
October 17th, 2006 at 6:09 pm[…] Posted on Tuesday 17 October 2006 Cheney: ‘General Overall Situation’ In Iraq Is Going ‘Remarkably Well’ […]
October 17th, 2006 at 6:10 pmThere have been 3,005 coalition deaths, 2,771 Americans, two Australians, 119 Britons, 13 Bulgarians, six Danes, two Dutch, two Estonians, one Fijian, one Hungarian, 32 Italians, one Kazakh, one Latvian, 17 Poles, two Romanians, two Salvadoran, three Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, two Thai and 18 Ukrainians in the war in Iraq as of October 17, 2006, according to a CNN count
At least 21,077 U.S. troops have been wounded in action, according to the Pentagon
Way to go Cheney… heck of a job
October 17th, 2006 at 6:11 pmCome on Think Progress. World War II lasted 6 years for most of the World. I guess from a myopic American viewpoint, of course, nothing happens if the US isn’t involved. For the record, people started dying on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. I think that must be in some history book available somewhere in the United States. It was May 7, 1945 before Germany officially surrendered and September 2 when Japan gives up. That’s almost 6 years to the day. (Some outposts continued to fight after that.) And since the British are as complicit in the Iraq mess as the Americans you should at least acknowledge them - they started fighting September 3, 1945.
October 17th, 2006 at 6:12 pmThe jerk must be suffering from dimentia or is a lunatic who needs to be admitted to the nearest asylem. Perhaps the whole friggin’ gang of four should accompany him.
October 17th, 2006 at 6:19 pmok, at this point, there is nothing left of this soul of this man.
October 17th, 2006 at 6:22 pmWell it IS going remarkably well …. for an undertaking that was initiated on the basis of barefaced lies and which has been mismanaged in every possible way since then.
October 17th, 2006 at 6:22 pmWhew. And I thought Iraq might get to be a problem.
October 17th, 2006 at 6:24 pmPaul, guess what? No one here cares what you think. I know that is probably pretty hard for you to believe. I am sure in your circle of friends you are the most authoritarian personality and tend to project your opinion and point of view on those around you which makes you feel very dominant and smart.
That is my big issue with people on the right. You have the most self centered, narcissistic worldview. You believe that the rest of us need to think and act as you do. You believe that if only you “explained†it to us we would finally “get it†and see the world as you do. You know you’re right, so obviously we must be wrong.
Well guess what, we have a differing opinion and are not interested in what you think. The world is not black and white. There are lots of shades of gray. People don’t always agree and see things the same way. I don’t feel like you (Paul) need to agree with me to validate my personal worldview, so please stop trying to convince us of yours.
Sit home, watch Fox News, listen to Rush Limbaugh and keep thinking your right and we’re wrong. WE DON’T CARE! What are you doing on this website anyway? I don’t go to RepubliCON websites and try to convince people of my convictions because I don’t give a SH!T if they agree with me.
And by the way, I read several magazines, newspapers, read lots of books, listen to political radio (from both sides) before I take in all the facts and formulate my own opinion. I would urge you to do the same.
October 17th, 2006 at 6:25 pm…they started fighting September 3, 1945.
Comment by Stan Jones — October 17, 2006 @ 6:12 pm
ROFL… so the British started fighting the day after Japan surrendered? News to me. Me thinks you need to correct your year there.
October 17th, 2006 at 6:31 pmquite the response from cheney, who has never seen action in a war. rhumsfeld leads the american troops from his desk at the pentagon, another warmonger who has not witnessed the horrors of war from a battlefield.
October 17th, 2006 at 6:32 pmbacked by the biggest coward of all, jr. bush, aka. the cheerleader, the conneticut cowboy, the killer of hundreds of thousands of iraq women and babies. how on earth did these people become americas leaders, certainly not by setting an example of bravery, or of defending their country.
to say that the iraq war is “going remarkably well”, illustrates, glaringly, that cheney and his thugs are simply to arrogant or ignorant to live. these people deserve to die the gruesome deaths of the helpless and defenceless people they have commited geonocide on.
bush, cheney, rhummy have their special place in hell reserved.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen as blatant a liar as Dick Cheney.
October 17th, 2006 at 6:40 pmIt’s absolutely amazing.
Well, isn’t that a shot in the face.
October 17th, 2006 at 6:47 pmShow of hands please. How many of you noticed that he didn’t really say what the headline attributed? He seems to be saying that the Iraqi government and security forces are doing well, given the overall situation. This is a distortion worthy of Fox News.
October 17th, 2006 at 6:48 pmI know of someone who just got back from a one year deployment. I think he would disagree with Cheney’s position. Given where Cheney has been for the last year, I’d have to go with the person who was on site.
October 17th, 2006 at 6:49 pmelections? turnout? Saddam had elections too, he usually won 99% of the vote, that musta been real democratic.
October 17th, 2006 at 6:50 pmheckuva job rush
October 17th, 2006 at 7:00 pmRush must be sharing his oxycontin.
October 17th, 2006 at 7:01 pmWill the bullsh!t ever end… This guy is so going to hell….
October 17th, 2006 at 7:15 pmWhat did George say to Jerry during the lie detector test, “It isn’t a lie if you believe it”.
Cheney’s old steel heart has corroded and the rust particles have migrated to his brain. The man is delusional. He has lost touch with reality. It’s time for an evaluation before sending him off to an undisclosed location for permanent residency.
October 17th, 2006 at 7:35 pmHitler
What really gets my hackles up is that Cheney gets way too little press in all this. Cheney that thinks of Cheney first, last and always.
lastly……..
Theodore Roosevelt
And to our friend Paul. Just one question…
What’s your favorite koolaid flavor?
October 17th, 2006 at 7:36 pmDick says Osama is right…..it’s the major front for the war on terror. Conveniently opened like a gaping wound by him and the Bushies. So why is the administration holding Osama in such high regard thee days, anyway? why do they keep quoting him all of sudden, like he’s one of those Fox News experts they trot out all fo the time? That’s a long way from “I don’t think about him” a year after 9/11. Disgusting, ridiculous, stupidity.
October 17th, 2006 at 7:37 pm[…] On Iraq, Mr. Last Throes states: […]
October 17th, 2006 at 7:43 pmGood point, Dick…right on. Please pass the Kool-Aid.
October 17th, 2006 at 7:47 pm[…] In Bizarro World Darth Cheney claims “the general overall situation” is going “remarkably well”… Meanwhile in the real world things aren’t going that swimmingly… Further demonstrating the growing fragmentation in Iraq, a bloc of Sunni insurgent groups marked the anniversary by declaring a separate Islamic republic in Iraq, stretching from the western province of Anbar to Baghdad, Kirkuk and other parts of the north. The announcement was made by a spokesman for the Mujaheddin Shura Council, an umbrella organization of insurgent groups that includes al-Qaeda in Iraq, and aired by al-Jazeera satellite television. […]
October 17th, 2006 at 7:48 pmThe monkeys and lunitics are running this country it is about time we
October 17th, 2006 at 7:49 pmexercise that right to abolish that goverment thru the ballot box.It is
time we restablish sanity to our goverment and never let it happen
again for our children and grand-children.
Rush gave Cheney some of his drugs before they went on the air.
October 17th, 2006 at 7:50 pmHow delusional can this guy be? Doesn’t he realize what he and bubba have done to destroy this country, not only internally but with the rest of the world. What a PUTZ!!!
October 17th, 2006 at 7:54 pm“remarkably well”= I was worth 1 million after #39, 10 million pre #41 and now I am worth well over 60 million.
October 17th, 2006 at 7:58 pm#105 J Jung
In your death accounting, you left out 660,000 Iraqis!!!!!
Just an oversight on your part, right?
October 17th, 2006 at 8:04 pmAll i see in this comment section is:
delusional
idiots
monkeys
lunatics
Kool-Aid
lies
ignorant
arrogant
I am here to say,
October 17th, 2006 at 8:05 pmYour all: right.
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen as blatant a liar as Dick Cheney.
It’s absolutely amazing.”
It’s mental illness.
October 17th, 2006 at 8:07 pmOf course they had a large turnout for voting, nobody works. And, Cheney, how come the majority of Iraqis want the U.S. out?
October 17th, 2006 at 8:07 pmAmmo Dump Explosions - Media blackout
http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=LlM3BDojdLo&mode=related&search
from an Arabic news broadcast. Notice at 4:00 what appears to be a small nuke going off. …
http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=UBMqTpDnitA&mode=related&search
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlM3BDojdLo&eurl
4 mins into the video, there’s a huge explosion and subsequent mushroom cloud. Why haven’t we heard anything about this since it happened? How many american troops were injured? How many died? Why the news blackout? American voters want to know.
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Nothing to see here. Just move along.
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Whatever was blown into the air and thrown out of the left side of that mushroom cloud at 3:57 or so was HUGE. The media needs to ask what the HELL is going on over there. I
wonder how many Americans were killed as a result of this rocket attack and subsequent explosions.
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You will hear of the casualties after the election.
Email the Public Editor @ the NYTs:
Public @ nytimes.com
Ask him if they’re sitting on this story until a year after the election just as they did the NSA wiretapping story.
Ask him
= I blogged about it the other day…
http://www.blah3.com/ article.php?story=2006101310595728…
And another blogger showed up in my comments and left this link:
http://piglipstick.blogspot.com/ 2006/ 10/ news-blackout-o…
He took the question of ‘What happened with that ammo dump fire?’ and ran with it. He’s got a YouTube video of the fire on his blog. You gotta check it out - especially what happens at about 3:59 of the video.
A MASSIVE explosion, and I mean massive. It looks like a goddam nuke going off.
Must-see
October 17th, 2006 at 8:11 pmYes, things are going remarkably well. For you. $$$$$
October 17th, 2006 at 8:11 pmThis interview is absolutely outrageous. I cannot believe these guys are still smiling and saying that everything is going well. What the hell planet do they live on?
October 17th, 2006 at 8:13 pm“I guess he should have said that the situation is relatively better than surrendering to terrorists.”
What terrorists! The fighting and killing in Iraq is a civil war between the shites and the sunni! The Bush Adminstration better start making some God damn plan instead of…I don’t know what they are doing! Other than acting like the weakest and lowest form of people on this planet.
October 17th, 2006 at 8:15 pmRush and Dick represent the PSYCHOPATHS within our society. It’s also known as the modern term: ANTI-SOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER. You can add to this NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER.
In a nutshell, it basically means you have no conscience, you are callous, you have no empathy, you are manipulative, you use charm, manipulation, intimidation, and violence to control others, lacking in conscience and in feelings for others, no sense of guilt or regret, they have no remorse or anxiety.
And the people who follow Dick, Bush, Rove, Rummy are Psychopaths themselves.
October 17th, 2006 at 8:23 pmCheney and Limburger will say the same thing when they do interviews from hell.
October 17th, 2006 at 8:33 pmIraq is estimasted to have the largest oil supply in the world at 226 Billion barrels. If tapped, it could single handedly break the back of OPEC.
Now tell me again, why are we in Iraq?
Comment by Pissed+Off — October 17, 2006 @ 3:48 pm
It is not common knowledge but Venezula has reserves of 1.3 Trillion barrels of “heavy” oil which is more than the world’s proven reserves of “light” oil. The problem is getting it out of the ground economically. I think the price of oil has to be around $30 barrel to get this oil. No wonder Bush wants to get rid of Hugo!!!!
October 17th, 2006 at 8:34 pmBush signs torture bill; Americans lose essential freedom. October 17, 2006
George W. Bush got what he wanted, ostensibly as a tool in his unfocused “war on terror”: By signing into law the Military Commissions Act of 2006, Bush has made it legal for the C.I.A. to continue operating torture facilities in undisclosed, foreign countries, and for the writ of habeas corpus to be suspended for individuals who are designated “enemy combatants” against the U.S. (Designated by whom? That question remains unanswered.) The law also “establishes military tribunals that would allow some use of evidence obtained by coercion [that is, torture], but would give defendants access to classified evidence being used to convict them.” (Reuters)
The provisions of Bush’s new torture law mean that Americans have lost the key, constitutional right on which Anglo-American criminal law (and criminal-law procedures in true democracies in general) is founded; that’s the basic right of an individual to know why he or she is being apprehended and detained. Now, technically, as in Stalin’s Soviet Union, Hitler’s Germany, Mao’s China or Pol Pot’s Cambodia, anyone labeled an “enemy combatant” - again, by whom; by Bush? - can be whisked away and never heard from again. That kind of authority, in the hands of corrupt or untruthful politicians, may or may not be an effective tool in some kind of “war on terror,” but it certainly can be a useful tool when it comes to silencing their opponents.
In an Orwellian pronouncement dutifully reported by Voice of America, the taxpayer-funded “news” service that acts as a mouthpiece for the administration, Bush said: “The United States does not torture….It is against our laws and it is against our values. By allowing the C.I.A. program to go forward, this bill is preserving a tool that has saved American lives.” Bush’s claim flies in the face of numerous reports of torture conducted by American officials at U.S. military prisons or secret locations overseas.
October 17th, 2006 at 8:40 pmThe gospel according to Bush-Cheney
Jesus Christ is an enemy combatent
Nailing to the cross is not torture
October 17th, 2006 at 8:40 pmrush on dick is hilarious.
October 17th, 2006 at 8:52 pmI got nothin’
Caption Contest!!
Alright Limbaugh, I wanna see both of your hands, right now!!
October 17th, 2006 at 9:17 pmhere’s what’s unreal: I was having my car worked on at Just Brakes and when they took me into the garage to show me what is wrong with the car, there was this super loud radio playing you guessed it: Rush Limbaugh. So please, there are guys who have oil under their nails for life and they think the Republicans are on their side? Too too much…
October 17th, 2006 at 9:26 pmSo now both Bush and Cheney are looking to OBL for their military strategy!?!?!? IF OBL says we should be fighting in Iraq then that’s the last place we should be. He wants the US tied down in Iraq ao he can plot his next “Spectacular Strike” in peace. WTF is wrong with these F**ktards?? Doesn’t anyone in the administration read Sun’s Art of War? Maybe someone should sneak it into Chimpy’s reading pile instead of the “Shakespeares”.
October 17th, 2006 at 9:28 pmHe’s gotta need help taking a crap. He’s so full of it, that it’s got to constipate him. He’s the lying son of a bitch I’ve ever seen in my lifetime.
October 17th, 2006 at 9:46 pmanyone labeled an “enemy combatant†- again, by whom; by Bush? - can be whisked away and never heard from again. That kind of authority, in the hands of corrupt or untruthful politicians, may or may not be an effective tool in some kind of “war on terror,†but it certainly can be a useful tool when it comes to silencing their opponents.
Comment by ren — October 17, 2006 @ 8:40 pm
Ren, just a couple of points. Under the Law, the government can shield classified evidence from the defendant.
And people can be locked up indefinitely, without a hearing, pending determination of whether or not they are an enemy combatant.
In other words, a legal immigrant could be caught up in a sweep of, say, people with Muslim surnames…or even Hispanic surnames, and incarcerated for the rest of her or his natural life without ever knowing why, pending a determination of whether or not she or he is an “unlawful enemy combatant.” There is no time frame for when that determination must be made. It need never be made. And no judge can ever hear a claim of habeus corpus on their behalf.
The United States Constitution no longer applies to legal immigrants.
Now, if the Repuiblican Congress can strip Constitutional rights from some persons by merely passing a statute and removing jurisdiction of the courts to hear a challenge, it can strip Constitutional rights from every one the same way.
October 17th, 2006 at 10:03 pmThat comment of Cheney’s may, and in any case deserves to, become as notorious as Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” set-piece on the aircraft carrier. The mind boggles.
October 17th, 2006 at 10:12 pmYo Cheney! I bet ya Hitler would fire Goebbles, his Propoganda Chief in a heart beat to hire you. With all the talents you have in that department, no wonder, only horn you can toot is a goddamn right wing one. I and rest of us Americans do see your point, war is going swell. Geez what do you tell the mothers, daughters, and wifes of soldiers who died for your swell ideas.
October 17th, 2006 at 10:20 pmThanks for helping create not only the deficits, but also thousands of terrorists for the future generations.
It truly doesn’t matter. Rush’s listeners are lost souls. Cheney’s just preaching to the choir of Limbaugh.
October 17th, 2006 at 10:31 pmCheney said “things are going well” and “thank God for stop loss orders”.
October 17th, 2006 at 10:33 pmIt, for the most part is understandable that persons who populate a website with an agenda might have similar leanings to the website, whatever that might be, but 153 persons who really give a shit about this situation, I really doubt it, my guess is someone with an agenda makes up these names and writes derogatory remarks. Aside from 3000 dead soldiers and their immediate friends and family I really dont see how any American is affected negatively by this war, in fact, they only benefit. The war is going well, every day there are less people who believe in god, who believe that god, (or their dog, or their dead prophet) or whatever, has commanded to go out and kill people so that they can go to a place where they can have sex with 72 virgins who then, they presumably must kill because they won’t be virgins any more, even though if they are in a place where everyone is dead the virgins must be dead too. Please, please, please, all you 153 prepubescent jr highschoolers, study your history and learn from it. A war which kills 3000 people in 3 years is no war at all. In real wars 3000 people an hour die, cities of 100,000 are reduced to ashes in a night, 25,000,000 die and the United States always wins. Live with it, you can’t change it. Even when they loose they win.
October 17th, 2006 at 10:49 pmInteresting that Cheney is quoting Bin Laden. And when Bin Laden says that prolonging the war in Iraq is good for al Qaeda, does Cheney quote that? Nope.
I’m sure the families of the 53 American soldiers killed last month will be glad to hear that their sacrifices were part of a ‘remarkably good’ phase in Iraq’s history.
October 17th, 2006 at 10:49 pmYou really DO have to look at the overall situation to evaluate Iraq- and given the fact that we’re losing the war–we’re not doing so badly- much better than Hitler on the eastern front for example. In fact we may be in the top 10 percent of nations to lose a war in terms of how we’re doin.
Cheney’s right again.
October 17th, 2006 at 10:53 pmThe vice president is speaking for an administration which couldn’t find its ass with both hands, when it comes to planning anything. So, I guess I would have to agree, we are lucky the entire world hasn’t been blown to bits, yet.
October 17th, 2006 at 11:00 pmCheney said they had 300,000 Security Forces Trained? Thats more than twice as many troops as we have over there. That Gen Zinney or whatever is name is said we would need 300,000 boots on the ground to invade Irag successfully. Well, if they have 300,000 Security forces trained and ready to “stand up” shouldn’t our troops be “standing down” by now?
October 17th, 2006 at 11:04 pmOh, by the way, a friend of mine lost her grandson yesterday in Iraq to an IED. Thank You Rush and Dick.
“we’ve been in Iraq a little over three years and I don’t think it’s surprising that people are concerned” CONCERNED????? Come on mr. Cheney. People aren’t concerned. People are PISSED. I really don’t know how you guys sleep at night.
October 17th, 2006 at 11:22 pmhttp://limbaugh.com/?q=lies
October 17th, 2006 at 11:28 pm“we’ve been in Iraq a little over three years and I don’t think it’s surprising that people are concerned.” Concerned???????? Come on Mr. Cheney, people aren’t concerned. People are PISSED. I really don’t know how you guys sleep at night.
October 17th, 2006 at 11:31 pm[…] The ThinkProgress blog reports about a Rush Limbaugh radio interview of Vice President Cheney. […]
October 17th, 2006 at 11:34 pmWell, to be fair, the guys he talks to are not too concerned. They are making the big bucks.
October 17th, 2006 at 11:39 pmHe may as well have said: “Hitler says the 3rd reich is bad for the Jews, and, you know, he’s right.” or “Johnnie Cochran says if the glove don’t fit, you must aquit. And, you know, he’s right”.
October 17th, 2006 at 11:40 pmDick Chenobyl must go.