Dick Cheney’s 20/20 Foresight
Posted on May 21, 2007 - Filed Under American Politics | 3 Comments
“Once you’ve got Baghdad, it’s not clear what you do with it. . . . It’s not clear what kind of government you would put in. . . . How much credibility is [that] government going to have if it’s set up by the United States military?. . . . To have American military forces engaged in a civil war inside Iraq would fit the definition of quagmire, and we have absolutely no desire to get bogged down in that fashion.”
- Dick Cheney, New York Times interview, April 13th 1991
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wow… how’d he know that was going to happen?
Because back then he wasn’t as fucking stupid? The weird thing about the Iraq war (even though its not over yet) was what was the REAL reason they went into it? I mean, two many of the people involved should have known better – ‘Cheney in 1991′ if that post in accurate, George Bush Sr., Colin Powell… The lot. Was 9/11that brain-damaging?
The post is entirely accurate, and Colin Powell and George Bush Snr. were both against the second Iraq war. Bush Snr. wasn’t involved in the decision to go to war at all, and Powell’s faction didn’t carry the same weight as the Rummy/Cheney faction in the administration.
I don’t know why Cheney changed his mind. Maybe he didn’t. Maybe he was just giving the official administration policy back in 1991.