Dick Cheney on Iraq (almost exactly 16 years ago). But yet the Dems are the "irresponsible" ones?!?

[Roland99]

Dick Cheney, April 7, 1991:

Well, just as it's important, I think, for a president to know when to commit U.S. forces to combat, it's also important to know when not to commit U.S. forces to combat. I think for us to get American military personnel involved in a civil war inside Iraq would literally be a quagmire.

Once we got to Baghdad, what would we do? Who would we put in power? What kind of government would we have? Would it be a Sunni government, a Shi'a government, a Kurdish government? Would it be secular, along the lines of the Ba'ath Party? Would be fundamentalist Islamic? I do not think the United States wants to have U.S. military forces accept casualties and accept the responsibility of trying to govern Iraq. I think it makes no sense at all.



Go fuck yourself, DICK

[cali]

1. Wow. Great find!

Send this over to the DNC. Perhaps Howard can put it to good use.

Oh yeah, and let me echo your sentiment:

Go cheney yourself, cheney.

[GOPBasher]

2. Hypocrite Corporation called.

They want their general manager back.

[izzie]

3. I guess head of Halliburton all those years made him think

that if you could make money it meant you were smart. Connections work so much better than brains. All these well connected people who were always second rate will make the US second rate for sure. Like types seem to get together all the time. This guy sold out many years ago.

[yellowcanine]

4. The difference is that he is now VP and has his greedy oil stained hands on the reins of power.

Why the MSM hasn't called Cheney on this is a mystery to me.

[JohnnyLib2]

5. Recommended. Spread the word.

The sad and dangerous fact is that he apparently has no qualms at all about his flip-flop use of "gravitas."

[SammyWinstonJack]

6. HYPOCRITE! Big shock here! NOT! And yeah, what you said!

Go fuck yourself, DICK!

[wicket]

7. Nice find Roland!!!!

:thumbsup:

[Raven]

8. Where did you find this?

What's your source? It's wonderful!

[Roland99]

10. ThinkProgress entry referring to DICK's appearance on ABC's This Week.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/12/cheney-quagmire/

[pnorman]

9. Is there a definitive source for that quote?

n/t

pnorman

[Roland99]

11. See post #10

:)

[pnorman]

12. Thanks. I missed Post #10 by about a minute.

I hope nobody here is taking any offense at this sort of question, but I always NEED sources.

pnorman

[Roland99]

21. I should have posted the link in the first place

was just in a hurry :)

[Canuckistanian]

13. Youtube had an actual audio link to this

I posted it last year. Don't know if it's still around.

[Scriptor Ignotus]

16. found it

http://youtube.com/watch?v=NGIe1gPaTXY

[Roland99]

17. Nice!

[Canuckistanian]

18. Repost it in Political Videos, if you would.

I'm on dialup here.

[Roland99]

20. If you have Firefox, get one of the Flash video plugins to download it

then you'll have it locally for posterity!

:)

[Canuckistanian]

22. No, no, I have it.

I just wanted to share it with others.

[wicket]

19. Great, thanks!

:kick:

[spanone]

14. Then he saw the Halliburton profit margin graph and had an epiphany!!!!

[genie_weenie]

15. The only problem is the Regime

will always, always... counter with 911 changed everything.

Oh, and Saddam is 911.

[Poiuyt]

23. But 9/11 changed everything

Isn't it nice to have a catch-all excuse. You can use it for anything.

[Roland99]

24. Hmm...I wonder how else we could use that?

Boss: "Roland, did you get that report finished?"

Roland99: "Uh, no sir. 9/11 changed everything."





Reporter: "So, Shaq. Why did you miss that dunk that would have won the game?"

Shaq: "Well, Marv. 9/11 changed everything."