Yeah, that's pretty much it

Professor Smooth & Debonair on the latest mumbling from the world's best known Dick and his worry about Iraq after all "our sacrifices":

First of all, Cheney didn't make any sacrifices in Iraq. He deferred his own military service five times because he 'had other things to do.' The 'sacrifices' were caused because he purveyed falsehoods to the US public in order to get up that war, hinting around that Saddam was in bed with Usama Bin Laden and telling senators that Iraq was two years away from having a nuclear bomb. So the sacrifices were of other people's children, and his role was merely that of an Aztec high priest cutting the heart out of the victims.

Just the first of five reasons.

And, of course, Dick -- had a habit of saying the opposite in the past, why I got months and months of post out of this statement in May 2005:

"I think we may well have some kind of presence there over a period of time. 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."

Oh, and leaving the cities by the Summer 2009? That was agreed to in the last months of the Bush Administration.