Dick Cheney’s cloudy vision

The vice president made what is being described as a surprise visit to Iraq today and proclaimed the war a “successful endeavor.”

“If you reflect back on those five years, it’s been a difficult, challenging but nonetheless successful endeavor,” the vice president said at a news conference in the Green Zone, where he was flanked by Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, the chief U.S. commander in Iraq, and U.S. Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker, the top U.S. civilian official in Baghdad. “We’ve come a long way in five years and it’s been well worth the effort.”

I guess this is what he means by successful.

A bombing on Monday evening killed 43 people near the Imam Hussein shrine in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, penetrating one of the most secure perimeters in Iraq, and Iraqi police officers at the scene and several witnesses said it had been carried out by a female suicide bomber.

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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie. View all posts by hankkalet