Whomod, you should have seen Meet the Press this morning, where Tim Russert interviewed Dick Cheney, and answered --and for my money DISPROVED-- all the allegations you've made in this lengthy and skewed Republican bash-fest of a topic.


Interview of Dick Cheney
http://www.msnbc.com/news/MEETPRESS_Front.asp

A full transcript should be at this link in a day or two.
Recent interviews I've seen of Democrat candidates/Senators John Kerry, Joseph Lieberman, and Joseph Biden, all express dissent from Bush on some of the finer points, but fully recognize the necessity of going to war in Iraq to wipe out the rat's nest there.

Again, it seems to me that this "It's not about oil or Iraq..." topic is pure hate for the Republicans, and ignores the facts to blindly slander Bush, and undermine our military's ability to do the right thing.
The simple truth is, at this point, 6 months after the war began, there are still less than 300 dead American soldiers in Iraq, which --far from a failure and a fiasco-- is instead a monumental achievement. Iraq was conquered and occupied in less than 3 weeks. It was expected before going in that Iraq would be occupied for about 2 years before an independent Iraqi government was fully established, and this schedule still seems realistic.
But of course, a Bush-bashing liberal press reports it much differently than that reality.

I fully expect the BBC, the French, the Germans and Muslims worldwide to unfairly distort America's actions for their own political gain. But I resent the hell out of this kind of slander from within the U.S.

If this kind of liberal media dominance, venomous political posturing and distortion existed in the 1940's, we would have lost World War II.

I think many leftists, out of sheer spite, WANT us to lose in Iraq, and churn out distorted angry propaganda toward that end. You'd destroy this country, just to spite Bush.

As Vice President Cheney said today, whatever the war in Iraq's final price tag is, it's a tiny fraction of what September 11th cost.