SCHIEFFER: Mr. Vice President, all along the government has been very optimistic. You remain optimistic. But I remember when you were saying we’d be greeted as liberators, you played down the insurgency ten months ago. You said it was in its last throes. Do you believe that these optimistic statements may be one of the reasons that people seem to be more skeptical in this country about whether we ought to be in Iraq?
CHENEY: No, I think it has less to do with the statements we’ve made, which I think were basically accurate and reflect reality, than it does the fact that there is a constant sort of perception if you will that’s created because what is newsworthy is the carbomb in Baghdad, it’s not all the work that went on that day in 15 other provinces in terms of making progress in rebuilding Iraq.
First off ... the statements "were basically accurate and reflect reality?" It's been three fucking years! What reality is he speaking about? He said we'd be greeted as liberators, and that is absolutely not how we were greeted, it is not how we are now being greeted, and I'm pretty sure it's now how we'll continue to be greeted. He said last year the terrorists were in their last throes, and the terrorist activity is rising, not diminishing.
Next ... I'd like Cheney to rattle off work done in even five other provinces that would mark progress in rebuilding Iraq, let alone fifteen.
Once again, the media is to blame meme is trotted out.
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