Whatever happened to a quick strike situation where we would take Saddam's weapons out and be greated with roses? Man, those were the days.
Not like today, when Vice President Dick Cheney said that the war will be over by the time the administration leaves office... which, for anyone keeping track (and I'm sure a few people on dKos are...) is in the year of 2009.
Details below.
From
CNN's homepage:
"The vice president said he expected the war would end during President Bush's second term, which ends in 2009.
'I think we may well have some kind of presence there over a period of time,' Cheney said. 'The level of activity that we see today from a military standpoint, I think, will clearly decline. I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.'"
Expectations are all well and good, except they also expected that we would already be gone from Iraq, leaving it with a working democracy. And Cheney has the balls to say this in the same interview he claims the insurgency is in the "last throes." Considering how many people have been killed this month, I'd hate to see what the insurgency looks like when it's in full swing.
I wish I could trust him, I really did. I want this war to be over and our people to be back here, where it's safe. But I just can't trust this administration anymore, and when he says something like this- two contradictory statements on top of each other- it doesn't give me much hope.
So which is it, man? Are they coming home soon or not?