Come on, Dick. You can say it. WASHINGTON (Reuters)-U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney acknolwedged on Tuesday he was wrong in 2005 when he insisted the insurgency in Iraq was in its "last throes."
It was Cheney's most direct public admission of how badly the administration had undereestimated the strength of America's enemies in the increasingly unpopular war in Iraq.
But Cheney, an architect of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, otherwise gave no ground in an interview on CNN's "Larry King Live" as he defended President George W. Bush's Iraq policy. There now, Dick. That wasn't so hard, was it? Now if only we saw this kind of honesty more often...
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