http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/25/cheney-staying-in-iraq-is-like-pardoning-nixon/Recently, in an interview with ABC News, Vice President Cheney defended his administration’s refusal to heed the public’s desire to get out of Iraq. “I think you cannot be blown off course by the fluctuations in the public opinion polls,” he said. The Washington Post notes that in a follow-up interview yesterday, Cheney compared decision-making on the Iraq war to President Gerald Ford’s unpopular decision to pardon Richard Nixon for the Watergate scandal:
Thirty years later, nearly everybody would say it is exactly the right thing to do, that if he’d paid attention at the time to the polls he never would have done that. But he demonstrated, I think, great courage and great foresight, and the country was better off for what Jerry Ford did that day. And 30 years later, everybody recognized it.
And I have the same strong conviction the issues we’re dealing with today — the global war on terror, the war in Afghanistan and Iraq – that all of the tough calls the president has had to make, that 30 years from now it will be clear that he made the right decisions, and that the effort we mounted was the right one, and that if we had listened to the polls, we would have gotten it wrong.
WELL, CUURENT THINKING IS WE WOULDN'T BE IN THIS MESS, IF NIXON AND CO. HAD BEEN SENT TO THE SLAMMER THE FIRST TIME. IT MIGHT HAVE DETERRED CHENEY, FOR CERTAIN! AFTER ALL, WE'VE NEVER HAD A CONVICT ELECTED VICE-PRESIDENT!
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