ladies and gentlemen, ari fleischer.
in salon:
Cheney even went on to throw out the possibility that Baghdad would fall without any fighting. "I can't say with certainty that there will be no battle for Baghdad," he said. "We have to be prepared for that possibility."
Asked about Cheney's rather optimistic remarks on Tuesday afternoon, White House press secretary Ari Fleischer said that "the vice president said what he said because he had reason -- good reason -- to say it."
Does that mean that the White House still thinks that the Republican Guard will abandon ship?
"I assure you, the vice president does not say things lightly," Fleischer said. "So when the vice president says something like that, he has good reason to say it, and to think it and, therefore, to say it."
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