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.


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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