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"I think that the proposition of going to Baghdad is also fallacious. I think if we were going to remove Saddam Hussein we would have had to go all the way to Baghdad, we would have to commit a lot of force because I do not believe he would wait in the Presidential Palace for us to arrive. I think we'd have had to hunt him down. And once we'd done that and we'd gotten rid of Saddam Hussein and his government, then we'd have had to put another government in its place.
"What kind of government? Should it be a Sunni government or Shi'i government or a Kurdish government or Ba'athist regime? Or maybe we want to bring in some of the Islamic fundamentalists? How long would we have had to stay in Baghdad to keep that government in place? What would happen to the government once U.S. forces withdrew? How many casualties should the United States accept in that effort to try to create clarity and stability in a situation that is inherently unstable?
"I think it is vitally important for a President to know when to use military force. I think it is also very important for him to know when not to commit U.S. military force. And it's my view that the President got it right both times, that it would have been a mistake for us to get bogged down in the quagmire inside Iraq."
-- Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, April 29, 1991
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Actually, it's a TAX HIKING, GOVERNMENT-EXPANDING, LATTE-DRINKING, SUSHI-EATING, VOLVO-DRIVING, NEW YORK TIMES-READING, BODY PIERCING, HOLLYWOOD-LOVING, LEFT-WING FREAK SHOW.
It would have been nice if Cheney had brought some of this up before we went to war. He made it sound like that toughest part of the occupation would be sweeping up all the rose petals. -
and, let's not forget, Volvo-driving.
all i can say is, holy shit.
here's Cheney asking all the questions to which
no one STILL seems to know any answers. and
acknowledging the quagmire possibilities.
brilliant sunshine of the spotless mind of Dick Cheney? -
Aha, he used the "Q" word!
Bmiller, I guess that's in addition to sushi-eating and cafe-drinking? -
You don't mean... no, that Dick Cheney FLIP-FLOPPED?!?!?
No, that can't be. You must have mistakenly thought it was Cheney when really it was some Saddam-loving, America-hating, surrender-to-the-terrorists, negative-thinking wimp! One who didn't care about the poor suffering Iraqi people. Everyone knows that Bush and Cheney lay awake nights for years, decades probably, worrying constantly about the rights of the oppressed Iraqi people. - Bruce
4/17/04 10:12 PM