Political Quotes

“When he was asked about Iraq, Vice President Cheney said: Bottom line is that we've had enormous successes and we will continue to have enormous successes. It is interesting that the Vice President would make this statement barely a week after the President of the United States announced that we are facing a slow failure in Iraq. The President sees a slow failure; the Vice President sees enormous successes. This is not the first time the Vice President has made statements which defy reality. We can all recall the statements made by him and many others in the administration suggesting the presence of weapons of mass destruction, nuclear weapons, suggesting a connection somehow between Saddam Hussein and the tragedy of 9/11. It turns out that in each and every instance the Vice President was wrong. We can also remember that in June of 2005 when we were facing one of the bloodiest, deadliest periods in Iraq, Vice President Cheney said: The level of activity that we see today from a military standpoint, I think, will clearly decline. I think they're in their last throes, if you will, of the insurgency. Another quote from the Vice President which was not in touch with the reality of the war in Iraq.”