An enormous asshole or a gigantic asshole??
Raddatz: Two-thirds of Americans say it’s not worth fighting, and they’re looking at the value gain versus the cost in American lives, certainly, and Iraqi lives.
Cheney: So?
Raddatz: So — you don’t care what the American people think?
Cheney: No, I think you cannot be blown off course by the fluctuations in the public opinion polls. Think about what would have happened if Abraham Lincoln had paid attention to polls, if they had had polls during the Civil War. He never would have succeeded if he hadn’t had a clear objective, a vision for where he wanted to go, and he was willing to withstand the slings and arrows of the political wars in order to get there. And this President has been very courageous, very consistent, very determined to continue down the course we were on and to achieve our objective.
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He should be strung up by the short and curlies for even implicitly comparing monkey boy to Lincoln
Besides the fact that support for the Civil War in the North was, with breathtaking exceptions (Draft Riots, Cincinatti), actually pretty high throughout. There was a sense that this was not the war to lose. Part of that was because of a burgeoning sense of empire, and looking west, who wanted to have to deal with a neighbor to the south who might make deals with England and other European powers that could threaten our holds in that direction and in the Caribbean?
So this has absolutely nothing to do with the Iraq War or opinion polls.
But you know, 9/11 and Iraq weren't exactly wrapped around each other's finger either.
Dick Cheney should be forced to work in Baghdad with children injured since the invasion until he dies. Or our own injured soldiers.
Or perhaps he can start digging the graves he helped make.
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