CHENEY FLIP-FLOP ON IRAQ
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by: truthisinbetween (M/Blue Pacific) 09/30/04 08:47 pm
Msg: 128462 of 178988
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Yesterday the Seattle Post-Intelligencer dug up the text of a speech Cheney gave in Seattle in August 1992, while serving as secretary of defense for the first President Bush. Back then Cheney argued that taking over Iraq wouldn't be worth the cost in U.S. lives, and would lead to a quagmire. In light of the turmoil there now, the irony of his words is as rich as vast fields of Iraqi crude. Ditto regarding Cheney's timing on the threat Saddam may have posed: The Iraqi dictator, as we now know, was much closer to wielding nuclear weapons at the time of the first Gulf War -- when Cheney said Baghdad was a no-go -- than when the Bush administration launched the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003.
The question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth?' Cheney asked during the 1992 speech. 'And the answer is not very damned many. So I think we got it right, both when we decided to expel him from Kuwait, but also when the president made the decision that we'd achieved our objectives and we were not going to go get bogged down in the problems of trying to take over and govern Iraq.'
What, back then, did Cheney think those problems would look like?
'Once we had rounded him up and gotten rid of his government, then the question is what do you put in its place?' Cheney asked. 'You know, you then have accepted the responsibility for governing Iraq.'
When Cheney and his colleagues in the second Bush White House did apparently decide to 'accept the responsibility for governing Iraq"
by: truthisinbetween (M/Blue Pacific) 09/30/04 08:47 pm
Msg: 128462 of 178988
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Yesterday the Seattle Post-Intelligencer dug up the text of a speech Cheney gave in Seattle in August 1992, while serving as secretary of defense for the first President Bush. Back then Cheney argued that taking over Iraq wouldn't be worth the cost in U.S. lives, and would lead to a quagmire. In light of the turmoil there now, the irony of his words is as rich as vast fields of Iraqi crude. Ditto regarding Cheney's timing on the threat Saddam may have posed: The Iraqi dictator, as we now know, was much closer to wielding nuclear weapons at the time of the first Gulf War -- when Cheney said Baghdad was a no-go -- than when the Bush administration launched the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003.
The question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth?' Cheney asked during the 1992 speech. 'And the answer is not very damned many. So I think we got it right, both when we decided to expel him from Kuwait, but also when the president made the decision that we'd achieved our objectives and we were not going to go get bogged down in the problems of trying to take over and govern Iraq.'
What, back then, did Cheney think those problems would look like?
'Once we had rounded him up and gotten rid of his government, then the question is what do you put in its place?' Cheney asked. 'You know, you then have accepted the responsibility for governing Iraq.'
When Cheney and his colleagues in the second Bush White House did apparently decide to 'accept the responsibility for governing Iraq"
posted by Gary at 8:42 AM
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