U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney has arrived in Japan, the first stop on a three-nation Asian tour
overshadowed by a bloody uprising in Iraq.
Cheney is expected to urge Japan to keep its troops in Iraq, despite the kidnapping earlier this week of three Japanese civilians
by insurgents who have threatened to execute them if Japanese troops are not withdrawn by Sunday night.

Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better.
Dick Cheney
We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.
Dick Cheney

