Cheney: We did 'nearly everything' we planned to in Iraq

[jefferson_dem]

Source: CNN

Cheney: We did 'nearly everything' we planned to in Iraq
Posted: 09:36 AM ET



(CNN) — In his first television interview since leaving the vice president’s mansion, Dick Cheney told CNN's John King the Bush administration had accomplished "nearly everything we set out to do" in Iraq — and took aim at a key member of the Bush diplomatic team who's been tapped for the Obama administration.

"I think it's my general sense of where we are with respect to Iraq at the end of now, what, nearly six years is we accomplished nearly everything we set out to do," he said on State of the Union Sunday. He pointed to falling levels of violence, and recent democratic elections: "We have succeeded in creating in the heart of the Middle East a democratically-governed Iraq, and it is in fact what we set out to do."

But he declined to say whether those conditions meant "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq: "I wouldn't use that, just because it triggers reactions that we don't need," he said. "But I would ask people, and the press too, to take an honest look at the circumstances in Iraq today, and how far we've come."

He was critical of the Obama administration's decision to tap Chris Hill, the Bush team's point man on North Korea, to serve as ambassador to Iraq. "He’s not the man I would have picked," said Cheney, saying Hill "doesn’t have experience in the region, none of the skills and talents that Ryan Crocker had," adding that he would not have made that choice.


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[formercia]

1. They didn't steal Iraq's Oil.

poor babies.

[shadowknows69]

4. Yeah they did. Exxon/Mobil is signing a deal right now.

It's all the same super-corporate trough to these pigs.

[NeoConsSuck]

15. They certainly did.

Iraq had nationalized the oil industry, which was a big no-no to capitalists. Silly citizens, oil belongs to corporations, not to the citizens of the land.

Let's see, who else has nationalized oil?? Ohhhhhhh, the demon from Venezeula.

[Iliyah]

29. steal the oil

which was the main purpose of going into in. Freedom from Hussein had nothing to do with nor the people's freedom re democracy. All were a front to simply take over the oil, which was quite successful. Cheney and the GOP could care less about the many lives loss because profit is GOD.

[unblock]

43. taking it offline and driving the price of their own oil up like crazy was even better for them.

why steal to double your oil supply when you can sell your own oil for twice as much? heck, three or four times as much!

better still, the iraqi oil is still there to steal later, when the price is even higher!

[hootinholler]

50. The same time that was going on Iraqi oil was being pumped unmetered.

So, make a bundle off war contracts, get your oil for free, and keep the price high. What Cheney calls hitting the trifecta.

-Hoot

[RedSock]

2. and THAT is why we say they are not incompetant

... what has happened was all by design and according to plan.

[dkf]

3. Good. Cheney agrees its a success so we can leave now.

YAY.

[spotbird]

5. Doesn't he know that no one gives

a flying fuck what he thinks?

[mikehiggins]

6. And while we're on the topic, CNN...

and the rest of the M$M couldn't be more obvious in their attempts to pillory Obama.

I can only hope that Big O knows in the back of his mind that there will be NO bi-partisanship with Murdoch, and Scaife and all the others until some way is found to break up the media monopolies that have become this era's robber barons. Just like the stockyards in TR's day sold tainted goods, so does today's "media." There is no truth, only expedience, and sooner or later we have to recognise (at least those who have not ALREADY recognised it) that the quest for profits cannot be allowed to disguise itself as a search for the reality behind the news.

The M$M have made themselves the enemy of the truth.

[Alcibiades]

7. If they did everything they set out to do

then leaving is not a problem.

[wordpix]

23. amen, it's time to leave NOW, even Darth says it

[Prometheus Bound]

8. Murdered, maimed and orphaned millions. Destroyed a country.

Installed a puppet government. Mission accomplished.

[ixion]

10. and don't forget rape and torture and general cruelty

which we heaped by the ton on the people of Iraq.

[wordpix]

24. and lest we forget the 1-2 million refugees - mission accomplished, Cheneyfudd

[OwnedByFerrets]

9. Was he asked about his suicide squads???

[santamargarita]

11. Now it's time we finished the job by locking Cheney's sorry ass up!

:mad:

[Career Prole]

12. They've GOT to be kidding!

"We did 'nearly everything' we planned to in Iraq"

[SpiralHawk]

14. Shock & Awe. FAIL. Is what they did, based on a pack of lies.

No respect for Republicon Chickenhawk Dickie 'Five Military Deferments' Cheney

[Jefferson23]

13. The Republican's version of a hero, the criminal Cheney.

[NeoConsSuck]

16. If their plan was to:

1) Secure the oil fields
2) Provide no bid contracts to Halliburton, Cheney's former company


then yes, an argument could be made that they accomplished their goals. Such lofty goals, and it only took 4000 American lives and countless Iraqi lives to achieve this.

[msongs]

17. a "democratic" government propped up by an occupier, the us military. nt

[bluesmail]

18. The * Administration then accomplished what no other administration

could do ~ ending posse commitatus ~ ending habeous corpus ~. And most importantly ~ they did kill democracy and had it replaced with fascism.

[Magleetis]

19. OK

Then why don't you take a trip over there and walk down the street of your choice.

[peacetalksforall]

20. We should build a dungeon in the monstrocity of an Embassy and take him their in chains. After his

trial. Let him do HIS nuclear busines with AQ Khan from there.

[daleo]

21. Destroyed the U.S. economy through war debt? check

Dragged the U.S. reputation through the muck? check
Killed tens of thousands of innocent people? check

Yeah, I suppose he accomplished his goals.

[Flagg]

22. I bet you did.

[jody]

25. 'nearly everything' but he conveniently omitted "winning". n/t

[felinetta]

26. We need a mainstream rebuttal

Everything Cheney said was bullshit!  And why the fuck did he
want to go on TV? ( I believe the first time he showed his
face after Sep 11 was on Jay Leno - of all people. I couldn't
figure out what changed for him to show his face and then I
heard after the show he  went to a fundraiser. He appeared for
the almighty dollar!) And so again, I think his motivation to
be exposed is that Bush and Cheney are trying to convince
everyone they were the good guys as the the talk of criminal
acts heats up!  Dick had an approval rating of 12% when he
left office and he thinks he is important and relevant!  I'm
just surprised he didn't go directly to Fox. Or maybe since he
loves
Rush, he should be Rush's co-anchor.

[annm4peace]

27. John King gives Cheney a pass

what a joke interview. CNN still pushing their propaganda.

Not one hard question. CNN is a bunch of cowards and puppets

[Triana]

28. Destroyed a country to get at the oil and to feed the Mil-Industrial complex...

..yep. Check.

[annm4peace]

30. ad during Cheney interview: for Oil and Natural Gas Industry

and the propaganda machine of CNN goes on.

If can sign up for Dish Network, Channel 9415 is Free Speech TV. you can watch real journalism on Democracy Now with Amy Goodman, Grit TV, and Mosaic for Middle East news.

Also the channel "Current" has been doing some great reporting. their show "Vanguard" had been doing some incredible news.

[louis-t]

31. The last paragraph made me wanna punch the wall.

bush picked hundreds of people with no experience including his girlfriend...I mean 2nd SOS. He would have sent John Bolton? Chee-ney only likes bullies. Go away dickwad.

[Rhiannon12866]

32. I'm watching, too. Now he's saying that Bush* "didn't always" listen to him...

:eyes:

[acmavm]

33. "He's not the man I would have picked," said Cheney..."

Well hells bells, I can't think of a better recommendation.

[LynnTheDem]

34. Excellent confession!

Made publicly.

Admissable.

[primavera]

55. My thought as well

Evidently he planned to murder hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi men, women, and children. What more does the Hague need?

[Lugnut]

35. They sure did.

$$$$$$

[George II]

36. But the bush administration NEVER spelled out what "we set out to do" in Iraq!!!!

It's a frigging guessing game. If something happened, "that's what we set out to do", if it didn't, "we didn't set out to do that".

They're a bunch of self-congratulating, self-serving, selfish, greedy, un-American gangsters.

[wordpix]

38. yes they did: 1) get the WMD 2) get Saddam 3) set up a new (puppet) gov & bring democ & freedom

these guys have constantly been giving themselves a moving target of goals & the stupid sheeple bought in until 2008

[George II]

42. You're right (I think)....

the spelled out what they wanted to do as they went along. As I said, if it was positive, "we wanted to do that, part of the plan", if it failed, "we didn't want to do that, not part of the plan". The so-called "plan" changed retroactively based on events.

[George II]

37. John King's interview is the BEST I've seen of a politician in decades...great job!!

[vssmith]

39. Does that include killing a large portion of their population?

[tabasco]

40. Sit on the oil and drive up the price of gas.

He's telling the truth.

[4lbs]

41. Hey Dick, where are those WMDs?

n/t

[BumRushDaShow]

44. Mission accomplished

A trillion dollars of tax payer money spent on war
Billions of dollars of tax payer cash and weaponry stolen from pallets in Iraq
Tens of millions of refugees in the entire area
Millions of dead Iraqis
Hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops injured and suffering PTSD
Tens of thousands of U.S. troops missing limbs and otherwise severely injured
Thousands of U.S. troops killed
Hundreds of contract companies living fat and happy
Dozens of new multi-millionaires
One Richard Perle, not only http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=284162-1">denying the existence of the "neo-con" but denying he ever was one.

Way to go Darth! All hail the Empire! :thumbsup:


:sarcasm: :puke:

[Imagevision]

45. Cheney, steered countless numerous no-bid no-compete contracts in Iraq to Halliburton, his former

company Halliburton, even though he resigned from being the head of that company. Like he stated, "We did 'nearly everything' we planned to do in Iraq.

[eppur_se_muova]

46. Ever wonder if DDDDDick's pacemaker is hooked up to a lie detector?

Every time he tells a whopper, he gets a satisfying jolt of juice. He's Pavlov's bitch now.

[Thor_MN]

49. Interesting premise, if you take it via the "Crank" route.

I love Jason Statham flicks.

Cheney needs to lie in order to receive a shock to his heart in order to live. Would actually explain a lot of his behavior better than him being just a plain evil asshole.

[George II]

51. Too bad it's not like the gadget on SNL's parody of Michael Steele last week!

[Demeter]

47. Except Win Permanent Bases, Establish "Peace", and Steal the Oilfields

But all the titillating rape, abuse, torture, and pillage and plunder, murder, and terror---he's got all that on tape!

[Thor_MN]

48. That's nothing. I've exceeded every goal I've refused to detail.

What's with this "nearly everything" crap. I've been wildy successful at picking every World Series and Superbowl winner. I had a perfect NCAA Men's Basketball bracket last year. I couldn't tell you ahead of time due to National Security reasons, of course, but I picked them. Trust me, I did.

[Vehl]

52. Im flabbergasted

[ldf]

53. it seems like they could have accomplished their

UNMITIGATED DISASTER for a lot less money...

but the whole clusterf**k was part of the much larger "fleecing of america", with halliburton and kbr (cheney's business partners) getting a lion's share...

[Hekate]

54. Now we know that all along they DID plan to destroy and loot the country....

The democracy part? That's just delusional.