Dick Cheney's Very Own Classic Definition of a Quagmire

[Canuckistanian]

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http://drinkingliberally.org/blogs/oakland/archives/2005/10/cheney_iraq_qua.html

No wonder, he talks out of the side of his mouth.

Sometimes, it's good to look back. Here's Cheney in 1991, parroting the elder Bush's (POTUS #41) reasoning for not going into Baghdad. Crooks & Liars has provided a link to the audio here (QuickTime audio). See transcript, below:

"The notion that we ought to now go to Baghdad, and uh, somehow take control of the country strikes me as, as, and extremely, uh, serious one, in terms of what we'd have to do when we got there. You'd probably have to put some new government in place. It's not clear what kind of government that would be --how long you'd have to stay. For the U.S. to get involved militarily, in determining the outcome of, uh, the struggle over whose going to govern in Iraq, strikes me as the classic definition of a QUAGMIRE."

Really? You don't say.

Posted by -c at October 11, 2005 11:40 AM

[Greyskye]

1. Thank the FSM for the internet!

Remember how painful it used to be to dig up these historical gems?

[Canuckistanian]

2. Yes, thank Koresh

This little piece is spreading like crazy on the internets right now.

(Ha! Firefox is tagging my "internets" as a spelling mistake!)

[Jack Rabbit]

3. But, but, but . . .

. . . some events change everything.

He made those remarks in 1991, before he was CEO at Halliburton.