In Veep's world, we're safer now than before Iraq
By CARL HIAASEN
MiamiHerald.com
Posted on Sun, Jan. 28, 2007
The wacky, upside-down world of Dick Cheney keeps getting weirder.
Last week he went on CNN and defiantly declared that the situation in Iraq is not so terrible.
This must have been surprising to the families of the 88 Iraqi civilians who were slaughtered the day before by car bombers at a busy Baghdad market.
Surprising to the loved ones and comrades of the 27 American troops who died last weekend, one of the costliest for coalition forces since the occupation.
Surprising to Lt. Gen. David Petraeus, soon to be commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, who two days earlier had informed a Senate panel that the situation there was "dire."