In an appearance on CNN on January 24, 2007, Vice President Dick “Cheney went on to describe the Iraq War as a success because Saddam Hussein had been ousted. ‘If he were still there today,’ Cheney said, ‘we’d have a terrible situation.’ ‘But there is a terrible situation,’ [host Wolf] Blitzer said. ‘No, there is not,’ Cheney insisted. ‘There is not. There’s problems, ongoing problems, but we have, in fact, accomplished our objectives of getting rid of the old regime and there is a new regime in place that’s been there for less than a year, far too soon for you guys to write them off.’ He added, ‘Bottom line is that we’ve had enormous successes and we will continue to have enormous successes.’ ”
– Peter Baker, Days of Fire, Page 530