Cheney: "The Iraq Was Was Worth It... It Was a Difficult Situation But It Was Successful" (Video)

From Gateway Pundit:

The Far Left was enraged today that Vice President Cheney announced that the Iraq War was worth it and that most of our objectives have been reached.

The Bush-bashers are outraged that the US lost 4,226 heroes liberating Iraq.
Of course, they weren't too upset about these numbers when the Clinton's were in charge.

Vice President Cheney held his final interview with Jim Lehrer today and talked about achieving success in Iraq:

THE VICE PRESIDENT: We now find ourselves in the situation where we're five years later; we've achieved most of the objectives that you would have set out in the spring of '03 when we launched into Iraq. We've got the violence level down to its lowest level since '03. We've had three national elections, a constitution written, a new government stood up, new army recruited and trained, the Iraqis increasingly able to take on responsibility for themselves. And we've now entered into a strategic framework agreement with the new Iraqi government that will provide for the ultimate withdrawal of U.S. forces.

You could not have asked for much more than that in terms of the policies that we started on in '03.

Q But Mr. Vice President, getting from there to here, 4,500 Americans have died, at least 100,000 Iraqis have died. Has it been worth that?

THE VICE PRESIDENT: I think so.

Q Why?

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My Comment: I personally have doubts on whether it was worth it. The U.S. has a lousy history of interfering in other countries affairs, and it is because of this reason that I have always been skeptical of the U.S. led invasion of Iraq.

I guess the people who would have the best opinion on whether this was worth it will be the Iraqi people themselves. Unfortunately ..... we will know the answer to that question in about ten or twenty years when all that has happened in Iraq can be looked at from a point of view that is no longer tempered by recent events.