Cheney Rejects Iraq Withdrawal

In his first public statements since the midterm elections, Vice President Cheney yesterday rejected calls for a military withdrawal from Iraq, telling a group of conservative lawyers that retreat would disappoint America's allies and embolden terrorists.

"To get out before the job is done would convince the terrorists once again that free nations will change our policies, forsake our friends and abandon our interests whenever we are confronted with violence and blackmail," Cheney told members of the Federalist Society, gathered in Washington for their national convention.

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