John Nichols: Cheney: Thanks for Cutting and Running (The Nation)

[marmar]

BLOG | Posted 02/21/2007 @ 8:51pm
Cheney: Thanks for Cutting and Running

Vice President Dick Cheney, keeping as far from federal prosecutors as possible these days, arrived in Japan Wednesday to officially thank that country for supporting the Bush-Cheney administration's invasion and occupation of Iraq.

What made the trip even more comic than Cheney usual campaigning on behalf of the war that he, more than any other member of the administration, wanted, plotted and defended with a disregard not just for the laws of the land but for reality, was the fact that he was thanking an ally that is not exactly in the alliance.

Japan was a part of the original "coalition of the willing" -- more precisely referred to as the "coalition of the coerced" – that signed on for the quagmire run.

But Japan pulled its troops out of Iraq last year.

The Japanese still provide a minimal number of airlifts in support of U.S. operations in the Middle East, but even that mission is set to end in July.

So Cheney was thanking a country that is essentially, and quite happily, out of the coalition. ......(more)

The complete article is at: http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?bid=1&pid=168189

[orleans]

1. funny. maybe crashcart wanted to be out of the country when the

jury comes in for scooter.

he is such a FREAK!