Cheney: US will be in Iraq for DECADES

[LoungeMachine]

Wednesday,Oct.5,2005


Cheney predicts decades-long US involvement in Iraq


WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 (Xinhuanet) -- US Vice President Dick Cheney said Wednesday that Americans must be prepared for decades-long involvement in Iraq.

For fulfilling its "historic duty," the United States "must be prepared to fight the war on terror for decades to bring peace to Iraq and the rest of the Middle East," he said when addressing a meeting of the Association of the US Army.

"As the people of that region experience new hope, progress, and control over their own destiny, we will see the power of freedom to change our world and a terrible threat will be removed," Cheney said.

However, like any other Bush administration officials, he did not give a clear timetable for US military presence in Iraq.

Cheney echoed US President George W. Bush's assertions that Iraqi security forces are making progress and will be capable of handling the increased insurgency very soon.

However, several US top commanders in Iraq told the Congress recently that the number of Iraqi battalions capable of fighting without US help have dropped from three to one.

As Bush's top lieutenant, Cheney was a key architect of the US invasion of Iraq two years ago and often made optimistic predictions on US plans in Iraq. Enditem

[blueturk]

"Once you get to Baghdad, it's not clear what you do
with it. It's not clear what kind of government you
put in place of the one that's currently there now.
Is it going to be a Shia regime, a Sunni regime, a
Kurdish regime? Or one that tilts toward the Baathists,
or one that tilts toward Islamic fundamentalists?
How much credibility is that going to have if it's
set up by the American military there? How long
does the United States military have to stay there
to protect the people that sign on for that government,
and what happens once we leave?"
Secretary of Defense
Dick Cheney, 1991

[FORD]

Fucking pieces of shit,

[BITEYOASS]

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[DLR'sCock]

Finally saying the truth about his intentions....

[Cathedral]

I love it when people speak beyond their own term of service.
Cheney has no fuckin clue what the next administration is going to do about Iraq.
He needs to shut the fuck up with his "predictions".!

[Nickdfresh]

I predict DICK CHENEY will die of a heart attack and his daughter will eat more pussy...

[Hardrock69]

It surely would be better for the country if that were to happen...

[Hardrock69]

Originally posted by Cathedral
I love it when people speak beyond their own term of service.
Cheney has no fuckin clue what the next administration is going to do about Iraq.
He needs to shut the fuck up with his "predictions".!

I hate to say this, but that is not entirely true.

Operation: Desert Storm did not occur until late 1990/early 1991, yet it was being planned in the White House in the early to mid-Seventies...

[Hardrock69]

Administrations come and go, but they are merely the entity in charge of implementing plans made by others...as such they take the heat when stuff fucks up during their 4 or 8-year reign of terror....


Hell, if anyone on the planet are terrists, it is the Chimp Administration.

Therefore they should arrest themselves.

[FORD]

Originally posted by Hardrock69
I hate to say this, but that is not entirely true.

Operation: Desert Storm did not occur until late 1990/early 1991, yet it was being planned in the White House in the early to mid-Seventies...

By Rummy, Cheney, and Wolfie, of course. The BCE really doesn't change their game plan all that much, no matter how much things have changed in the real world.

[Nickdfresh]

Originally posted by Hardrock69
I hate to say this, but that is not entirely true.

Operation: Desert Storm did not occur until late 1990/early 1991, yet it was being planned in the White House in the early to mid-Seventies...

What do you mean? General "contingency operations" are planned all the time, and have often been on the drawing board going back to WWII...

In fact, the US had/has a plan to invade IRAN called "The Eisenhower Plan."

[Hardrock69]

They are in many cases far more than just "General contingency" plans.

By the end of WWII, plans were in place for Korea to be the next theater of operations, followed by Vietnam.

Sure they always have "general" contingency plans, but they also have very specific goals, and are constantly planning not just years in advance, but 20-40 years on down the road.

We did real good in the 70s and 80s...there was a 16-year gap between the end of Vietnam, and the beginning of Desert Storm...quite a lengthy period of relative peacetime.

[Warham]

Did you all donate to the BCE/Clinton Katrina Fund yet?

Go to www.bceclintonkatrinafund.org

[Nickdfresh]

Originally posted by Hardrock69
They are in many cases far more than just "General contingency" plans.

By the end of WWII, plans were in place for Korea to be the next theater of operations, followed by Vietnam.

Really? I thought "Task Force Smith" nearly had it ass kicked out of KOREA in the opening phases of the war because we so underestimated the North Koreans, and had let our conventional forces languish after WWII, especially during the occupation of Japan...

And how exactly did the US "plan" for a surprise attack?


Sure they always have "general" contingency plans, but they also have very specific goals, and are constantly planning not just years in advance, but 20-40 years on down the road.

Yes, but I find it hard to believe that they planned for every specific war, and why did the US plan to go into Vietnam after WWII when we thought the FRENCH would retake control the country as a colonial possession?


We did real good in the 70s and 80s...there was a 16-year gap between the end of Vietnam, and the beginning of Desert Storm...quite a lengthy period of relative peacetime.

True, because the balance between the two superpowers and the threat of nuclear Armaggedon prevented direct involvement in most small proxy wars, until we held Islamic fundamentalists take over the Afghan resistance at behest of the SAUDIS...