Re: Please don't tell me everything is wonderful now....
I admit I paraphrased a bit, but I got his tone and point right.
Paraphrased a bit?!?! You re-wrote what he said.
Show me one sentence attributed to Cheney that even comes close to your distortion... not something like "There's problems -- ongoing problems. But we have, in fact, accomplished our objectives of getting rid of the old regime, and there is a new regime in place that's been there for less than a year, far too soon for you guys to write them off."
He added, "We still have more work to do to get a handle on the security situation, and the president's put a plan in place to do that." or "The world is much safer today because of it," Cheney said. "There have been three national elections in Iraq. There's a democracy established there, a constitution, a new democratically elected government.
"Saddam has been brought to justice and executed, his sons are dead, his government is gone. And the world is better off for it," he said.
Show me anything along the line of "we are making great progress in Iraq, and that everything is going great!" in his statements, or admit you were distorting the truth for your own political ends.