Iraq invasion was "successful endeavour" - Cheney

[December]

BAGHDAD, March 17 (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney on Monday declared the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq a "successful endeavour" during a visit to Baghdad, on the same day a woman suicide bomber killed 40 people.

"If you look back on those five years it has been a difficult, challenging but nonetheless successful endeavour ... and it has been well worth the effort," Cheney, an architect of the invasion, said after meeting Iraqi leaders.
The Iraq war is a major issue in the U.S. presidential campaign. Entering its sixth year this week, it has cost the United States $500 billion. U.S. Democratic hopeful Hillary Clinton said on Monday the final bill could be $1 trillion.

READ MORE - http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSCOL758848

This statement made by Cheney proves that the United States are controlled by the Satanists.

No wonder Muslims call America The Great Satan.

http://web.israelinsider.com/Static/Binaries/Article/1america-satan_0.jpg

[PatrickHenry]

A quick failure would have been cheaper than this lengthy "successful endeavor!"

Doesn't anybody care that we are squandering our descendants' fortunes?

It's over a half a trillion$ already: http://www.nationalpriorities.org/costofwar_home

Of money borrowed from young folks and even some who aren't born yet!

Why is this successful?

I would consider success as something like extending a legacy of security to our young, not a legacy of debt.

Iraq has not made the US more secure.

[Easy90]

Way more successful than the 4 trillion$ spent on the "War on Poverty."

[4Reaganomics]

Buhaha

or how about the 1.1 trillion dollars over 10 years on Government controlled and operated healthcare

[AnnEsthesia]

Well, the invasion *was* a success. We left our shores and the troops arrived there. Presto! Success!

[apdst]

We spent less money and enjoyed more success in this war than we did in the nineties.

How much was it costing the tax payers to keep containment forces in the ME?

[AnnEsthesia]

I would love to see you back that up with sources. How can this war have cost us less, when our national debt is far and above any we have had?

[Buck Laser]

Way more successful than the 4 trillion$ spent on the "War on Poverty."

Once again, you change the subject. You got any corroborative evidence for that $4 trillion figure? I didn't think so. :madlaugh:

[apdst]

How can this war have cost us less, when our national debt is far and above any we have had?

How much did it cost to deploy US troops to The Balkans? To Somolia? Waht was the daily cost of the Iraq containment force?

[ScareCrow]

Buhaha

or how about the 1.1 trillion dollars over 10 years on Government controlled and operated healthcare


I don't know about you, but I would rather see my tax money going to save lives than to kill. If we can find money to kill then we can find money to heal.

As far as Iraq being a success, we have successfully overthrown a government based on lies. Still no WMD's or links to terrorists found in Iraq. At least the troop surge seems to be having a positive effect and hopefully the job will be complete in the near future.

[Truth_and_Power]

Buhaha

or how about the 1.1 trillion dollars over 10 years on Government controlled and operated healthcare


I know a couple of young women raising children that think medicare has been a big success.

[Truth_and_Power]

Why is this successful?


Perhaps this quote is from the halliburton board meeting..

[AnnEsthesia]

How can this war have cost us less, when our national debt is far and above any we have had?

How much did it cost to deploy US troops to The Balkans? To Somolia? Waht was the daily cost of the Iraq containment force?


You stated it. You back it up.

[Buck Laser]

Buhaha

or how about the 1.1 trillion dollars over 10 years on Government controlled and operated healthcare


I know a couple of young women raising children that think medicare has been a big success.

And I know an old guy who's not bankrupt because Medicare helped him when he needed it.

[apdst]

Haiti --1.6 billion

Yugoslavia --2.1 billion

Rwanda --573 million

Somalia --2.2 billion

The Balkans --3.2 billion

Iraq containment operations --258 billion

[AnnEsthesia]

And how much have we spent since we invaded?

[apdst]

I dunno, how much?

[potter]

BAGHDAD, March 17 (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney on Monday declared the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq a "successful endeavour" during a visit to Baghdad, on the same day a woman suicide bomber killed 40 people.



To him it was a success. It sucessfully transfered the entire US treasury to his buddies in the arms and oil business and turned the US towards a dictator state.

Oh, and they sucessfully hoodwinked most of the US population.

I'm thinking those were his individual objectives when he took office.

[Phyxius]

We spent less money and enjoyed more success in this war than we did in the nineties.

How much was it costing the tax payers to keep containment forces in the ME?


Hmmmmm... :ponder:

Desert Storm cost approx $61 billion. (http://people.psych.cornell.edu/~fhoran/gulf/GW_cost/GW_payments.html)

The current war has cost over $1 trillion (http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/10/news/economy/costofwar.fortune/) and many more U.S. lives.


Your math and history teachers must be sooooo proud... :madlaugh:

[AnnEsthesia]

You said we have spent more on those other wars than we have on this one. So, how much have we spent on this 'war on terror'?

[Phyxius]

Haiti --1.6 billion

Yugoslavia --2.1 billion

Rwanda --573 million

Somalia --2.2 billion

The Balkans --3.2 billion

Iraq containment operations --258 billion


Sooooo....

267.673 billion versus 1.2 TRILLION. All of those conflicts COMBINED cost only 22% of what this conflict has cost to date. Want to compare casualties next?

Like I said -- your math teacher must be sooooooooo proud... :madlaugh:

[apdst]

The current war has cost over $1 trillion and many more U.S. lives.

Actually, that figure covers all anti-terror operations, not just Iraq.

Want to compare casualties next?

Yeah, sure. The bad guys have lost forty-thousand in Iraq, alone. How many have we lost?

Ya think we got all our bang for our buck in all those expeditions during the 90's?

[lily]

"If you look back on those five years it has been a difficult, challenging but nonetheless successful endeavour ... and it has been well worth the effort," Cheney, an architect of the invasion, said after meeting Iraqi leaders.

I don't know what all the griping is about. Cheney decaired it was a successful endeabour.......sounds like victory to me!

Forget the fact that we have almost as many troops there now as we did during the heaviest fighting to control one city. Pack up and come on home boys.......we're in the last throes! You're not going to have to do a fourth or fifth rotation. Those that were pulled out of Afghanistan.........thanks and I hope your tour ends here.

[apdst]

sounds like victory to me!

Looks like it more and more everyday, huh?

I mean, I can feel ya'lls pain. I know you all were hoping so much for a smashing defeat. A smashing defeat of OUR forces, that is.

[Elrathin]

Yeah because what Cheney says is correct.

In 2004 Cheney called Iraq a "Remarkable Success Story" even though violence was high.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,136667,00.html

In 2005 Cheney said Iraq "Would be an enormouse Success Story" again after heavy violence.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/06/23/cheney.interview/

In 2007 Cheney said Iraq "was a Remarkable Success Story"

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1207/7227.html

Cheney is a broken f**king record with no clue as to what is going on. He's a parrot.

[Elrathin]

In 2005 Cheney said Iraq "Would be an enormouse Success Story" again after heavy violence.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/06/23/cheney.interview/

[Elrathin]

In 2007 Cheney said Iraq "was a Remarkable Success Story"

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1207/7227.html

Cheney is a broken f**king record with no clue as to what is going on. He's a parrot.

[AnnEsthesia]

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/04_02/georgebushAP2604_468x306.jpg

[apdst]

Bush was talking about the crew's mission, not the war. That's another very dead horse you keep beating on. Face, that horse ain't gittin' up.

[suedanim]

sounds like victory to me!

Looks like it more and more everyday, huh?

I mean, I can feel ya'lls pain. I know you all were hoping so much for a smashing defeat. A smashing defeat of OUR forces, that is.


I have never hoped anything of the sort. My sentiments have been primarily for their safety and average Americans and Iraqis'. I have been consistently vocal and disheartened by each death and the wounded of American young men and women.

Defeat! No.. never hoped for defeat, but I have hoped that we'd never invade and outraged that we did resulting in thousands of unnecessary deaths of innocent men, women and children, which includes our own American youths, most of which come from the poor and middle class.

Dick Cheney proves, yet again, what a pompous liar and fool he is. The man should be forced to serve in uniform in the most dangerous zones, walking point.

[lily]

sounds like victory to me!

Looks like it more and more everyday, huh?

I mean, I can feel ya'lls pain. I know you all were hoping so much for a smashing defeat. A smashing defeat of OUR forces, that is.


Yep! That's what I said.:dizzy:

[lily]

Bush was talking about the crew's mission, not the war. That's another very dead horse you keep beating on. Face, that horse ain't gittin' up.


Hmmmm......he said it was the crew's mission 6 months later, when it became very clear that the Mission was NOT accomplised. Gotta love that White House spin.

I also noticed that you totally skipped over the 3 links El posted where he said the same thing.

[apdst]

It wasn't until six months later that people started harpin' about it.

We're still gonna win. Don't worry.

I also noticed that you totally skipped over the 3 links El posted where he said the same thing.

It seems to coming to pas, too.

[lily]

It wasn't until six months later that people started harpin' about it.

Well...Duh....could it be because the Mission was NOT accomplished? Just as Cheney saying once a year that we're done......it's successful. Normal people don't fall for the same thing more than twice. What was that saying? Fool me once, shame on, er, um we won't be fooled again.

We're still gonna win. Don't worry.

apdst......this and terrorist supporter are so over used, it really doesn't phase me anymore.



It seems to coming to pas, too.

You lost me on this one.

[apdst]

Well...Duh....could it be because the Mission was NOT accomplished? Just as Cheney saying once a year that we're done......it's successful. Normal people don't fall for the same thing more than twice. What was that saying? Fool me once, shame on, er, um we won't be fooled again.

What do you expect them to say? We're losing? IS Obama saying that he's going to lose the election? I think you're making something out of nothing.

Personally, if this your biggest beef with the war, then I'd say we're doing purdy damn good.

[lily]

What do you expect them to say? We're losing? IS Obama saying that he's going to lose the election? I think you're making something out of nothing.

No, apdst.......what I would expect though is some honesty, not the same old re-hashed everything is rosey. I suspect we'll have to wait until next month for that.

Personally, if this your biggest beef with the war, then I'd say we're doing purdy damn good.

This isn't my biggest beef......but this is what the thread is about.

[apdst]

what I would expect though is some honesty, not the same old re-hashed everything is rosey.

I would like some honesty, too, instead of the same ole re-hashed everything is shit, all the time.

This isn't my biggest beef......but this is what the thread is about.

Well, while we're at it, what's your biggest beef? Not enough finger bowls for the troops? Or, not hot towels in the latrines?

[Phyxius]

what I would expect though is some honesty, not the same old re-hashed everything is rosey.

I would like some honesty, too, instead of the same ole re-hashed everything is sh1t, all the time.

This isn't my biggest beef......but this is what the thread is about.

Well, while we're at it, what's your biggest beef? Not enough finger bowls for the troops? Or, not hot towels in the latrines?


You really didn't just go there with lily, did you? Damn - you're an even bigger twit than I though (and that's sayin' somethin')... :unreal:

[DANG]

As long as oil stays in the sand, its all a huge success for cheney/bush.

Oil prices are aligned with the price of gold.

Try to visualize blood of a million innocent Iraqis mixed with the gas you pump into your tank....
and the money goes here:

http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/3604/cheneyevilcb6.jpg



Its the armed robbery, stupid

[DANG]

Are those flowers and candy in the mail?

http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/6525/warkillschildrendg5.jpg

Iraq will not EVER be a success.

Not if John McCain has his way.
He would disrespect their sovereignity with a THOUSAND YEAR OCCUPATION. (and hillary thinks he is ready to be president?)

The arrogance of America is peaking again....will we always survive our own selfish aggressions?

[lily]

Are those flowers and candy in the mail?

http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/6525/warkillschildrendg5.jpg


See, now Dang........this is what I find wrong with that picture....it's written in perfect English. It's staged.....unless I'm looking at it wrong and that's not a small Iraqi child?

[DANG]

Its an American child (see the American peace flag attatched to her sign?)

She is just one small voice pleading for children everywhere.

Pleading for protection from EVIL adults.

War of choice is mass murder... nothing less.

[lily]

My mistake.

[suedanim]

It wasn't until six months later that people started harpin' about it.

We're still gonna win. Don't worry.

I also noticed that you totally skipped over the 3 links El posted where he said the same thing.

It seems to coming to pas, too.


We're still gonna win? I heard the same thing for 8+ years we spent in Vietnam. While my generation of young men, many of whom were my high school classmates drafted right out of graduation, died or came back so changed, so reclusive we hardly knew them anymore, the government and people like you kept telling us we were gonna win that thing too.

Over 50,000 died in Vietnam... Are you prepared for more of America's young men and women to die? Are you prepared to support them with your tax money those who can no longer walk, talk, mangled mentally and physically by a false war? So far your leaders are hardly doing enough for veterans as it is. Why don't you care about the soldiers... in service AND out??

We lost as soon as we listened to and acted on the lies. We have lost because we are wrong, we went in on false pretenses, we have stayed on false pretenses. This, unlike other cultures, we have subjugated and either assimilated or isolated, is far more stubborn and far more resourceful. We are not going to westernize them, we are not going to force Christianity down their throats. We're done and our economy is screaming to let us know that.

We've spent a couple of trillion on the wars and accomplished what exactly? Are we safer? No.. we are far less safe than ever before. Dick Cheney is a despicable, greedy troll of a man, who lies as easily as he breathes.

btw.. torture doesn't work either.

[apdst]

We're still gonna win? I heard the same thing for 8+ years we spent in Vietnam.

And we won. What's the big deal?

Over 50,000 died in Vietnam... Are you prepared for more of America's young men and women to die?

Four hundred thousand died during WW2. Would you rather tackle the problem and lose fifty thousand men, or wait until things have grown so out of proportion that we lose a half million men?

Why don't you care about the soldiers... in service AND out??

I do, but I'm not going to waste my time explaining it to you. I can only ask, what have you done for our veterans today?

We've spent a couple of trillion on the wars and accomplished what exactly? Are we safer? No.. we are far less safe than ever before.

Far less safe compared to what? September 11, 2001? Since 1993, this is the longest period since a terrorist attack upon American. So, how are me less safe? Give us some specifics.


btw.. torture doesn't work either.

Why have people have been using it for the past few thousand years if it didn't work?