My sense of it is that what’s happened here now over the last few weeks is that the president has shored up his position with the speech he made a couple of weeks ago, specifically on Iraq.

The whole Bush maladministration, particularly Cheney and Rice, construct their statements with far more precision (and far more frequently) than Bill ever did when it depended upon what the meaning of “is” is. Inside Cheney’s evil head, it is Cheney’s “sense” (which is not necessarily the same as a belief) that the Resident has shored up his position. Cheney could take a lie detector test on that and pass it. If Cheney said that the Resident had shored up his position, that would be a lie. If Cheney said he believed that the Resident had shored up his position, that would be a lie. But in the articial reality inside Cheney’s head, Cheney has the “sense” that the Resident has shored up his position.

Next you’ll be thinking that Cheney is lying when he continues to state that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. But he’s right. Back in the 80s, when Rumsfeld was sent to cement the deal, Saddam did have WMDs. He used most of them up in the (US-sponsored) war with Iran. The rest decayed (as Ritter predicted back in 2002) to uselessness. But once upon a time Saddam did have WMDs. And when Cheney says that “Saddam did have weapons of mass destruction” without specifying when, he’s telling the literal truth.

Civilian contractor casualties in Iraq:
2006
•301 dead
•3,273 injured
Since the war began*
•770 dead
•7,761 injured
*Through Dec. 31, 2006

Source: Halliburton

Your getting what you deserve. No one likes you stupid blind idiots.