Liz Cheney and the never ending war her dad helped start

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Liz Cheney and the never ending war her dad helped start

Dick Cheney’s non-lesbian daughter wrote an op-ed in today’s Washington Post that spoke of continuing the war in Iraq.

We are at war. America faces an existential threat. This is not, as Speaker Nancy Pelosi has claimed, a “situation to be solved.” It would be nice if we could wake up tomorrow and say, as Sen. Barack Obama suggested at a Jan. 11 hearing, “Enough is enough.” Wishing doesn’t make it so. We will have to fight these terrorists to the death somewhere, sometime. We can’t negotiate with them or “solve” their jihad. If we quit in Iraq now, we must get ready for a harder, longer, more deadly struggle later.

Iraq didn’t have any terrorists until the United States invaded Iraq and sacked the government. Bush invaded Iraq not because of a jihad, but because Iraq supposedly had weapons of mass destruction and had the will to use them against the United States. Something that has turned out to be completely false.

Liz Cheney doesn’t want the war in Iraq to end. I find that more then a little ironic since as a baby, Liz Cheney helped her father dodge Vietnam. Dick Cheney received one of his many military deferments because of baby Liz. The Selective Service reclassified Dick Cheney from 1-A to 3-A because military service would have caused hardship on his family.

The war needs to come to an end. Iraq is free of weapons of mass destruction. Saddam is dead. There have been democratic elections. Iraqis got purple fingers. The mission has been accomplished.

Over 3,000 American troops have been killed in Iraq. It’s time to bring them home. Continued occupation of Iraq will only help to increase terrorism, not decrease it.

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4 Responses to “Liz Cheney and the never ending war her dad helped start”

on 24 Jan 2007 at 2:45 am1Don Wilson

“Iraq didn’t have any terrorists until the United States invaded Iraq and sacked the government. ”

Mind citing that with a few reputable sources?
on 24 Jan 2007 at 5:55 am2Rick

Read the 2005 National Intelligence Council report on Iraq. This is from a Washington Post article about the NIC report:

“Before the U.S. invasion, the CIA said Saddam Hussein had only circumstantial ties with several al Qaeda members. Osama bin Laden rejected the idea of forming an alliance with Hussein and viewed him as an enemy of the jihadist movement because the Iraqi leader rejected radical Islamic ideals and ran a secular government.”

And this:

“But as instability in Iraq grew after the toppling of Hussein, and resentment toward the United States intensified in the Muslim world, hundreds of foreign terrorists flooded into Iraq across its unguarded borders. They found tons of unprotected weapons caches that, military officials say, they are now using against U.S. troops. Foreign terrorists are believed to make up a large portion of today’s suicide bombers, and U.S. intelligence officials say these foreigners are forming tactical, ever-changing alliances with former Baathist fighters and other insurgents.”
on 24 Jan 2007 at 11:00 pm3Schooly G

Well, yeah, there’s that. But did any Republicans say that?
on 29 Jan 2007 at 3:58 pm4Bill

The Democrats need to start emphasizing:

“We did not vote for the war. We voted to give the Commander in Chief the authority to go to war AFTER ALL OTHER AVENUES HAVE BEEN EXHAUSTED!”

George Bush did not exhaust other avenues, in fact, as soon as he had this vote, he moved to immediately terminate all diplomatic efforts, and invade. Right there, should be sufficient for impeachment and imprisonment of King George.

Democratic candidates, wake up ! ! !

Don’t defend “well I voted for it before I voted against it”

Emphasize “I supported our president, and he deceived us, and abused our trust.”

Don’t accept responsibility for wrongdoing you did not commit!