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10 Worst Predictions

source: http://2010.newsweek.com/top-10/worst-predictions/cheney.html#

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#1 - ‘We will…be greeted as liberators.’
— Dick Cheney, March 16, 2003

The most telling response to Dick Cheney’s assertion on NBC’s Meet the Press that we’d be greeted in Iraq as liberators came from the man himself, in 2006 on CBS’s Face the Nation. When Bob Schieffer asked the vice president if his statement had increased skepticism of the war, Cheney responded, “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 car bomb 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.” To recap: first Cheney says he was right (he wasn’t) and then he blames media distortion for the fact that people won’t believe him. It’s hard to fake being greeted as a liberator; to this day, though, Cheney continues to pretend as if it had been so.

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5 comments // 10 Worst Predictions

  • GavinTheMother
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      GavinTheMother  

    • The 10th one about the iPod wasn't as wrong as it is delayed. Verizon has a version now in the "Droid" but it's better and you can actually use it as a phone because it's not AT&T. The iPod isn't going to die but it will not be driving the industry in the years to come.

    • 2 years ago
  • GavinTheMother
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  • tommic
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      tommic  

    • Dick Cheney, the king chicken hawk who applied for and recieved SIX defermets during the Vietnam war. Richard Pearl, Paul Wolfowitz are no better they supported sending people to war when in the sixties and seventies they did everything posssible to not serve their nation during Vietnam. People who support these policies are truly morons. Geoge W Bush was AWOL because he knew he could not pass a drug test. All nothing but chicken hawks who deserve no respect.

      tommic

    • 2 years ago
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