Via Reuters:WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney acknowledged on Tuesday he was wrong in 2005 when he insisted the insurgency in Iraq was in its "last throes."
Well, that only took him two years and a few thousand more dead people.
But, in fine Darth Cheney form:
He said the Bush administration would still send troops into Iraq if it could do it all over again, even knowing what it knows now, including that more than 3,000 U.S. military personnel would be killed.
"I firmly believe," Cheney said, "that the decisions we've made with respect to Iraq and Afghanistan have been absolutely the sound ones in terms of the overall strategy."
Only in a neocon's mind could those decisions be considered "sound". Mind you, it seems his "overall strategy" is to make as much money as he can for his war-profiteering buddies while plunging the Middle East into absolute chaos, so that's been a success.
I thought it was interesting that he also said during his interview with Larry King on Tuesday that he expects history will judge him and his warmongering partners as having done the right thing.
CHENEY: I think when the history is written that, in fact, it will reflect credit upon this president and upon his administration.
Credit for some of the worst US foreign policy blunders ever. But I don't think that's what Dick meant.
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