So What?
Posted on | August 1, 2007
If you felt the earth shake yesterday, that was Vice President Cheney admitting he was wrong about his “last throes” pronouncement two years ago:
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.”
It was Cheney’s most direct public admission of how badly the administration had underestimated the strength of America’s enemies in the increasingly unpopular war in Iraq.
But Cheney, an architect of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, otherwise gave no ground in an interview on CNN’s “Larry King Live” as he defended President George W. Bush’s Iraq policy.
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.”
This being the Bush-Cheney Administration, an admission of being wrong—rare and precious as it is—implies no alteration in future strategy. “Last throes” was wrong, and Cheney has finally admitted this, but it won’t change anything.
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