Cheney Cops to the Obvious
In an interview with Time magazine, Dick Cheney said it was “premature” to have said “we were over the hump in terms of violence.”
Quick, someone give the vice president a dog biscuit!
We have to positively reinforce every instance of truth that accidentally escapes his lips.
Wait, before you go…Time:
TIME: Mr. Vice President, if you had to take back any one thing you’d said about Iraq, what would it be?
CHENEY: I expressed the sentiment some time ago that I thought we were over the hump in terms of violence, I think that was premature. I thought the elections would have created that environment. And it hasn’t happened yet.
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