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Posted on 11/16/2001 1:18:56 PM PST by kattracks

Remember all those voices of defeatism in the media and Congress? Vice President Dick Cheney does, and he won't let them forget.

As the Taliban fanatics run screaming like little girls fleeing a spider, Cheney derided "the hand-wringers who, a week or two ago, were saying, 'It's not going to work; you're not doing enough; you've been at it now for three or four weeks, and my gosh, the war is not over yet.'"

"When you read the Washington press and see what all of the pundits have to offer and some of the talking heads on Washington have to offer, it's nice, at a moment like this, to be able to remind them that a lot of what they put out over the course of the last few weeks was just dead wrong," he said Wednesday during a speech to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Washington Times reported today.

"The results are there for all to see."

Still, he cautioned against overconfidence. The recent progress in the war "does not by any means indicate that this operation is over yet. We've got a long way to go."

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