(Reuters) Cheney: U.S. must show "stomach" to win in Iraq

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Cheney: U.S. must show "stomach" to win in Iraq

By Tabassum Zakaria

1 hour, 13 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President
Dick Cheney said on Sunday the United States must show it has the "stomach" to win in Iraq
or it will confirm al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's view that Americans can be pressured
to leave.

Cheney defended the plan put forward last week by President George W. Bush to send 21,500
additional troops to Iraq and said critics had not produced an alternative proposal.

U.S. allies helping in fighting terrorism -- Pakistan, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, the Gulf states
and Egypt -- must have confidence that the United States will not leave before a successful
outcome, Cheney said.

"If the United States doesn't have the stomach to finish the task in Iraq, we put at risk
what we've done in all of those other locations," he said on "Fox News Sunday."

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Full article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070114/pl_nm/iraq_usa_dc

Story continues with comments by John Murtha and Chuck Hagel.