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Feb 26 07

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama ridiculed Vice President Dick Cheney on Friday for saying Britain's decision to pull troops from Iraq is a good sign that fits with the strategy for stabilizing the country.

"Now if Tony Blair can understand that, then why can't George Bush and Dick Cheney understand that?" Obama asked thousands of supporters who gathered in the rain to hear him. "In fact, Dick Cheney said this is all part of the plan (and) it was a good thing that Tony Blair was withdrawing, even as the administration is preparing to put 20,000 more of our young men and women in. "Now, keep in mind, this is the same guy that said we'd be greeted as liberators, the same guy that said that we're in the last throes. I'm sure he forecast sun today," Obama said to laughter from supporters holding campaign signs over their heads to keep dry. "When Dick Cheney says it's a good thing, you know that you've probably got some big problems."

Cheney replied "The British pull out shows the success we envisioned: President Bush is not giving up on his call to overhaul the tax code for those who buy health insurance. The president is focusing his attention again on the topic after a recent government report projected that health care spending would double by the year 2016. Analysts say current tax policy is contributing to the increase in spending through incentives that favor more comprehensive and expensive health benefits. The president has noted that the current policy also discriminates against those who buy their insurance in the individual market. They don't get the same tax advantages as those who get insurance through their employers. When it comes to health care, everyone should get the same tax breaks, this along with the British pull out is what makes the president so great, multiple tasking and there is no truth that we have been experimenting with cloned meat and milk on Iraqis" 

Bush Replied, "The withdrawal of British troops is significant progress, it is exactly on the time table, your hero's Blair and I discussed going into this war and This lawsuit challenges Perry's authority to issue the order and seeks to block any state money from being spent on the vaccine until that question is resolved, The school-age girls of Texas are not guinea pigs who may be subjected to medial procedures at the apparent whim of Texas' governor." 

McCain said, " I worry  that a cutback of British troops in southern Iraq announced by Blair this week could lead to stronger control by "Iranian-backed Shiite" forces. But he said Blair and the British deserve gratitude for their efforts. He has literally sacrificed his political career because of Iraq, That is a great testament to his political courage and his stupidity for following Bush." Asked later by a reporter if he was in danger of making the same sacrifice, McCain responded, "Sure. but I have more courage than Blair he never spent time in POW camp, I lost to the Greatest Leader the world will ever know in 2000, The President will sacrifice his reputation and history for that mess he made in Iraq, I think that history would had been written different if I had been president in 2000, being a military man, mistakes would not had been made in Iraq. I believe that if we fail in Iraq, you will see chaos and genocide, some people perceive me as sucking up to the religious right. What's wrong with sucking up to everybody? I lost last time by not sucking up, I am not a dumb ass, whatever it takes to get elected" Feb 27 07