During a trip to Asia last month, Vice President Cheney, in an ABC News interview, said the troop withdrawal ideas promoted by some leading Democrats were similar to al-Qaeda's plans for Iraq:
It's odd that no one points out how similar the US invading Iraq was to al-Qaeda's plans.
It's odd that no one points out that "if we leave now we lose" sounds remarkably similiar to "we haven't actually gained any ground in Iraq."
We've lost fighters, spent $1/2 trillion. We're surely on the hook for $hundreds of billions more in rebuilding the armed forces and caring for the wounded for another 5 or 6 decades... and so far we don't hold any ground except wherever the troops are standing and getting shot at in Iraq, and Cheney says the enemy is just laying low til we leave. Haven't we convinced the Iraqis that Jeffersonian democracy and open markets is the way to go? How long will these "last throes" go on?
On another note... Haven't we trained 200 brigades of Iraqi fighters? That answer may well be yes, we have. And we're fighting them now... I wonder if that was part of al-Qaeda's plan as well.
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