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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3".....Martha Raddatz, chief White House correspondent for ABC News, sat down with Mr. Cheney in Oman, one of several stops on a Middle East tour that includes Iraq, Israel, the West Bank, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. After Ms. Raddatz asked about the economy — which he said was in “a rough patch,” not a recession — the subject turned to the deep unpopularity of the Iraq war. Here’s a transcript of the exchange, released by the network:
Raddatz: Two-third of Americans say it’s not worth fighting.
Cheney: So?
Raddatz: So? You don’t care what the American people think?
Cheney: No. I think you cannot be blown off course by the fluctuations in the public opinion polls. There has, in fact, been fundamental change and transformation and improvement for the better. That’s a huge accomplishment.
Dick Cheney's ("former")company Halliburton opened its global HQ from Texas to Dubai since the war the presidency he shared with GW Bush was begun illegally. Of all the criminals this series of other press reports no the 5th anniversary of the declaration of war, he is the one whose made direct financial gain attracted the most scrutiny. The investment portfolios of all the war criminals are centered on oil exploration & military contractor firms, and though they have each had to satisfy certain regulations governing the equivalence of "insider trading" for personal profit, their criminal activity has benefited the wealth of their friends & former associates to the tune of at least one trillion dollars thus far, estimates of the total cost of the war to the US taxpayer vary between 2 and 4 trillion dollars but leaving estimates aside, the Pentagon admits the war has cost 600billion dollars in five years. The Irish governmental budget averages one twenty-third of a trillion dollars.
ABC news has posted a video of the interview which may be seen here
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Vote2008/story?id=4479462&page=1
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previous articles in this other press off-site series :-
5 years after illegal war : Bush hails strategic victory ( speech at Pentagon)
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/86762
5 years after an illegal war - Aznar says Iraq is postive. (english interview to BBC 4)
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/86751
Abu Ghraib : "Rumsfeld Knew" - Lynndie England interview (english translation of interview with Stern of one of the less than a hundred individuals who went to prison for the war)
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/86750
Thats what poiticians usually wear. That's why they're politicians. See You En Teas.
Yesterday Wednesday 19th March 2008: 45 died in Iraq.
Baghdad: gunmen kill father and son, owners of currency exchange office, Karrada; car bomb kills policeman, Karrada; bomb kills taxi driver; 7 bodies.
Diyala province
Balad Ruz: suicide bomber kills 6 in market.
Kirkuk province
Hawija: 3 policemen killed by US forces.
Salahuddin province
Tikrit: 1 neighbourhood watch shot dead.
Babil province
Hilla: roadside bomb kills 2; another roadside bomb kills 2 policemen.
Basra: gunmen kill 17 border guards; gunmen kill policeman.
Karbala: 2 bodies.
That was up on Tuesday when only 28 died. Monday was pretty shit, 92 died. Sunday 26, last Saturday 19, Friday 15 & Thursday 39. That's a total of 264 in the last week of the 5th year of war.
By now it appears only Bush, Cheney & Aznar think it was worth it, the week has been notable in that no other of the warmongers & criminals has spoken of what they did. There has been not a peep from Blair or Berlusconi. No word from Rumsfeld on why the Iraqis aren't dancing in the streets or from Chalabi explaining to us how his lies have left his country with less reliable running water and electricity than in the time of Saddam. The "Irish Times" long ago did its turnaround and its readers today will think nothing strange about it wringing its hands at the blood. 5 years ago only one Government minister to his credit expressed any doubt about the coalition of the willing going to war, and that was Michael Mc Dowell. Strange to think. isn't it? In one week alone 264 names with bodies attached and families and mothers and fathers and futures wiped out so the world can be a safer place and we all sleep better at night knowing this is noble, this is what our enlightenment means, this vindicates Kevin Myers and justifies every cent and penny he earns, this is the moral high horse we have mounted that allows us the West to cast judgement on the world.
This is why any fifteen year old should live.