Vice President Dick Cheney delivered a blistering speech today at the Heritage Foundation in Chicago

"Yet now we hear almost daily the claim that the fight in Iraq has nothing to do with the war on terror. Opponents of our military action there have called Iraq a diversion from the real conflict, a distraction from the business of fighting and defeating Osama bin Laden and the al Qaeda network. We hear this over and over again, not as an argument, but as an assertion meant to close off argument.

Yet the evidence is flatly to the contrary. And the critics conveniently disregard the words of bin Laden himself. "The most serious issue today for the whole world," he said, "is this third world war [that is] raging in [Iraq]." He calls it "a war of destiny between infidelity and Islam." He said, "The whole world is watching this war," and that it will end in "victory and glory or misery and humiliation." And in words directed at the American people, bin Laden declares, "The war is for you or for us to win. If we win it, it means your defeat and disgrace forever."

This leader of al-Qaeda has referred to Baghdad as the capital of the caliphate. He has also said, "Success in Baghdad will be success for the United States. Failure in Iraq is the failure of the United States. Their defeat in Iraq will mean defeat in all their wars."

Obviously, the terrorists have no illusion about the importance of the struggle in Iraq. They have not called it a distraction or a diversion from their war against the United States. They know it is a vital front in that war, and it's where they have chosen to make a stand. Our Marines are fighting al Qaeda terrorists in Anbar province. U.S. and Iraqi forces recently killed al Qaeda terrorists in Baghdad, who were responsible for numerous bomb attacks. Iraq's relevance to the war on terror simply could not be more plain. Here at home, that makes one thing, above all, very clear: If you support the war on terror, then it only makes sense to support it where the terrorists are fighting us."

Please read the rest and share it with everyone you can.

You people really are cold and vile.

Wow.

And who says that the Left (please see above comments) isn't Loony?

Yikes.

Only people who despise their own humanity will find fault with this picture of our human vice-president. The only people who never make mistakes are the ones who never do anything. The notion that this frees them to require perfection or assign the failure to the pits of perdition is the irony of the age.

Sheesh,

Can't a VP make a shopping stop with his daughter, shred a bird with AF2, and come away without nastiness splattered about?

ABC: If you're listening (and that's a BIG if) please take a look at some of your readers comments on this post and others. Are they sane? If not, then, why?

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Frank

Great idea, 'daddy'. Far better that the little girls should grow up to wear burkas or get blown up by a terrorist's bomb. And if you're worried about their future children, support your local right to life organization.

As for you, Dick, I'll bet it was the left wing...

Cheney, Halliburton, war for oil, black helicopters, 9/11 an inside job, blah blah blah

Apparently some people just cannot disguise their hateful dispositions, or their prejudices. Dick Cheney is an honorable man. I am grateful that neither he nor any other passengers were injured in the bird strike, and I am pleased to see that some parents, at least, are teaching their children the sort of respect so often lacking in comments online.

Dick, that doesn't even make sense.

To daddy + Dick Eagleson - Too badyou are so ful of hatred you cannot see a good item that is what makes this world able to be bearble. These little girls were excited - but - you two are so full of venom - you can't see the lightheardedness in this report. You tow need shrinks - you only see negative in the world!

This is news because? A better news story would be the recall American Girl had on lead-tainted jewelry imported from China. A better reporter would investigate just how many of the toys Americans import from China are lead-tainted.

Oh, please. Mr. Cheney is engaged is an important world crisis in Iraq and crybabies whine about childrens' future, as if both are unconnected. The point being that to save the childrens' future is to end the conflict decisevely now, not a generation from now.

Let's break out some old Doors for daddy:

"The men don't know
But the little girls understand..."

How many little girls got kisses from their fathers before they headed off to work the morning of September 11th, and were the last kisses ever given and received? And, might those daughters be feeling safer now, since we haven't had another attack since then?

The Left continues to astonish.

The future female conservatives club, what a beautiful thought, and young ladies to boot.

It is sad that the first comment by "daddy" is really just venomous bile, buttressed by about 5 falsehoods. Does the antiwar movement scare anyone else as much as it does me? (Did Cheney feel good, the war is not infinite, Cheney did not brag, little girls don't have husbands, what future husbands = 5 flasehoods, at least, packed into about 30 words!)

Daddy, this story isn't about the war, or your petty insults. Some schoolgirls, and their parents, were excited to meet the Vice president. Grow up and get over it.

And, Dick, More people have been killed by Ted Kennedy's car than Cheney's shotgun...

Or, he might have said something about how his unwillingness to embrace Islamic terrorism (like Pelosi) makes it marginally less likely they'll be forced to wear headscarves as a mandatory fashion accessory anytime soon (like Pelosi).

But I'm betting he just smiled kindly and said "Hello."

For both of the previous commenters: "SHUT YOUR DAMED FACE... !!"

Seems little girls have better manners than grown up democrats.

Always warms my heart when I hear about some young children who have sufficiently escaped liberal indoctrination -- in the schools and elsewhere -- enough to still be kids. Awwwe.