Cheney's Accusations: Patently Obvious

War's Critics Abetting Terrorists, Cheney Says
He Cites Allies' 'Doubts' About U.S. Will

By Michael Abramowitz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, September 11, 2006; Page A12

Vice President Cheney offered a veiled attack yesterday on critics of the administration's Iraq policy, saying the domestic debate over the war is emboldening adversaries who believe they can undermine the resolve of the American people.

"They can't beat us in a stand-up fight -- they never have -- but they're absolutely convinced they can break our will, [that] the American people don't have the stomach for the fight," Cheney said on NBC's "Meet the Press."

The vice president said U.S. allies in Afghanistan and Iraq "have doubts" the United States will finish the job there. "And those doubts are encouraged, obviously, when they see the kind of debate that we've had in the United States," he said. "Suggestions, for example, that we should withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq simply feed into that whole notion, validates the strategy of the terrorists."

Cheney unapologetically defended the 2003 invasion that toppled Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, saying the administration would have done "exactly the same thing" even if it knew before the war what he acknowledged knowing now -- that Iraq did not have stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction. Yet he also gave a bit of ground, as he was pressed repeatedly by interviewer Tim Russert about statements that turned out to be wrong or damaging to his credibility.

It completely escapes me how what the Vice-president said is surprising to those on the Left. Our enemies have repeatedly quoted Democrats in Senate and House as well as those statements by the pundits of Mainstream Media. The very words spoken by alleged "Americans" like Dick Durbin, Harry Reid, John Kerry, John Murtha, Nancy Pelosi, Paul Klugman, Eugene Robinson, and the other Know-it-all Liberals today will be heard coming out of the mouths of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hassan Nasrallah, and Ayman Zawahiri tomorrow. How is this not aiding and abetting our enemies?

We know that Osama Bin Laden believed he could strike America with impunity because, after 8 years of a do-nothing but fail Clinton [mis-]Aministration, he believed Americans lacked the will to stay the course. Now we have idiot members of Congress and their propaganda outlet, the members of the Paleo-press, confirming his claims everyday with their repeated calls for abandoning the war in Iraq.

Only those who place their politics above the well-being of our nation could conceiveably say the kind of things which are routinely said by the likes of Cindy Sheehan and John Conyers. Those who call for the abandonment of our just cause are a living breathing insult to our troops, our veterans, and our founders. They are traitors to our nation. These voices are as evil as Tokyo Rose and Berlin Betty.

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