If you are one of the 70% or so of Americans who have a problem with George Bush's Iraq strategy, or lack thereof, you are making a "dangerous blunder" and appeasing Osama bin Laden, per Mr. 20% himself, Dick Cheney.
Of course, that's utterly ridiculous. The two men in America who put a smile on Osama bin Laden's face every day are the two men who haven't caught him in 6 years, and who do everything in their power on a daily basis to help him recruit even more terrorists. Those men are named Dick and George.
Excerpts from Cheney's interview today on the GOP propaganda organ:
...if we were to follow their guidance — the comments, for example, that a lot of them made during the last campaign about withdrawing U.S. forces — we simply go back and revalidate the strategy that Osama bin Laden has been following from day one, that if you kill enough Americans, you can force them to quit, that we don't have the stomach for the fight. That's not an answer....Oh, it's an existential conflict. Well why didn't you say so in the first place?
The most dangerous blunder here would be if, in fact, we took all of that effort that's gone in to fighting the global war on terror and the great work that we have done in Pakistan and Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia and across the globe out there and saw it dissipated because the United States now decides that Iraq is too tough and we're going to pack it in and go home. And we leave high and dry those millions of people in their part of the world that have signed on in support of the U.S. or supported governments that are allied with the U.S. in this global conflict.
This is an existential conflict.
