Cheney finally visits Iraq for 1st time since before invasion

TheGunslinger

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Sun Dec-18-05 08:20 AM
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Cheney finally visits Iraq for 1st time since before invasion

Edited on Sun Dec-18-05 08:21 AM by TheGunslinger

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051218/ts_nm/iraq_cheney_dc

What a magnanimous gesture.

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sduncang

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Sun Dec-18-05 08:26 AM
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1. Indeed, how noble of him...

Indubitably this trip will be as productive and worthwhile as a Fox news report by Oliver North "live" from Iraq.

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Fridays Child

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Sun Dec-18-05 08:38 AM
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2. Well, then. Hillary's little spanking must have done him some good...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1992484

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win_in_06

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Sun Dec-18-05 08:53 AM
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3. Even if it is possible to plan a trip that quickly

Edited on Sun Dec-18-05 09:20 AM by win_in_06

I have to wonder if they would risk his security by throwing something like that together just to provide an answer to Hillary.

Could it be that this trip was already planned?

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Fridays Child

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Sun Dec-18-05 09:08 AM
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5. Oh, no doubt, but her timing was impeccable.

I'll give her that and I'm not even a big Hillary fan. :)

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teryang

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Sun Dec-18-05 09:16 AM
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6. I think he is there for some mission planning

Iraq is just a jumping off point for further misadventures.

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TheGunslinger

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Sun Dec-18-05 10:48 AM
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8. Probably to whip the oil ministry into shape. Oil production is down from

last year.

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MrBenchley

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Sun Dec-18-05 08:57 AM
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4. What happened when he was there before the invasion, I wonder?

Was he kissing up to Saddam?

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TheGunslinger

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Sun Dec-18-05 10:48 AM
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7. His last visit to Iraq was in 1991.

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MrBenchley

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Sun Dec-18-05 03:48 PM
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11. Got any details?

I know Halliburton was trading with Saddam through its Paris office, in violation of US sanctions...

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TheGunslinger

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Sun Dec-18-05 04:48 PM
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12. Not much. Here's a line from an ABC News article from today:

His last visit to Iraq was as defence secretary in 1991 when he toured US troops operating in southern Iraq after the first Gulf War.

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MrBenchley

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Sun Dec-18-05 05:06 PM
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13. I know some Republicans

including Alan Simpson and Bob Dole, visited Saddam in 1990 and praised him extravagantly. Simpson even said he wished he could control the press in America the way Saddam controlled the Iraqi press. It got media play in Canada and Britain, not much here...

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leesa

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Sun Dec-18-05 11:11 AM
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9. Will he visit his old friend and business partner Saddam?

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TheGunslinger

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Sun Dec-18-05 02:38 PM
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10. I'd love to see Saddam's defense lawyers paste posters of Rummy...

shaking his hand.

:)

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anakie

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Sun Dec-18-05 05:10 PM
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14. let's see him prove how safe Iraq has become

by walking unprotected around the streets of Baghdad. Fascist.

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joanski0

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Sun Dec-18-05 05:14 PM
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15. That was just a photo-op. He on his way

to visit his rich buddies in Saudia Arabia and do more oil takeover plotting. That American Ambassador to Iraq even stated on Wolf's show this morning that Cheney has now left Iraq for his next stop. He didn't say what Cheney's next stop would be.

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