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Danielle (Dani) Cutler | | VIDEO: Cheney Reasserts That Iraqi Insurgency Entered Its ‘Last Throes’ In May 2005
In May 2005, Vice President Cheney declared that the insurgency in Iraq was in its “last throes” and predicted “[t]he level of activity that we see today from a military standpoint, I think, will clearly decline.” Since that time, violence in Iraq has continued unabated.
Today at the National Press Club, Cheney was asked if he still believed that May 2005 was when the insurgency entered its “last throes.” He said he still did. Watch it:
Cheney tries to spin his previous comments as a prediction of political progress. Cheney now says he meant that May 2005 would be the beginning of a “series of events when the Iraqis increasingly took over responsibility for their own affairs.” Actually, Cheney predicted that violence in the country, from May 2005 on, “will clearly decline.”
Full transcript:
REPORTER: About a year ago, you said that the insurgency in Iraq was in its final throes. Do you still believe this?
CHENEY: I do. What I was referring to was the series of events that took place in 1995 [sic – 2005]. I think the key turning point when we get back 10 years from now, say, and look back on this period of time and with respect to the campaign in Iraq, will be that series of events when the Iraqis increasingly took over responsibility for their own affairs. And there I point to the election in January of ‘05 when we set up the interim government, the drafting of the constitution in the summer of ’05, the national referendum in the fall of ‘05 when the Iraqis overwhelmingly approved that constitution, and then the vote last December when some 12 million Iraqis in defiance of the car bombers and the terrorists went to the polls and voted in overwhelming numbers to set up a new government under that constitution. And that process of course has been completed recently with the appointment by Prime Minister Maliki of ministers to fill those jobs. I think that will have been from a historical turning point, the period that we’ll be able to look at and say, that’s when we turned the corner, that’s when we began to get a handle on the long-term future of Iraq.
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Danielle (Dani) Cutler | |
A Cheney Reminder
Meet
the Press: 03/16/03
Russert: If your analysis is not correct, and we’re not treated as liberators, but
as conquerors, and the Iraqis begin to resist, particularly in Baghdad, do you think
the American people are prepared for a long, costly, and bloody battle with significant
American casualties?
Cheney: Well, I don’t think it’s likely to unfold that way, Tim, because I really
do believe that we will be greeted as liberators.
I’ve talked with a lot of Iraqis in the last several months myself, had them to the
White House. The president and I have met with them, various groups and individuals,
people who have devoted their lives from the outside to trying to change things inside
Iraq. And like Kanan Makiya who’s a professor at Brandeis, but an Iraqi, he’s written
great books about the subject, knows the country intimately, and is a part of the
democratic opposition and resistance. The read we get on the people of Iraq is there
is no question but what they want to the get rid of Saddam Hussein and they will welcome
as liberators the United States when we come to do that."
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/06/19.html#a8780
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