W Bush Inc MUST Go

VP Cheneyburton's 1992 Iraq Amnesia

Joel Connelly writes, "The words of our future vice president -- defending the decision to end Gulf War I without occupying Iraq -- eerily foretell today's morass.

Here is what Cheney said in '92:

'I would guess if we had gone in there, I would still have forces in Baghdad today. We'd be running the country. We would not have been able to get everybody out and bring everybody home... And the question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam (Hussein) worth? And the answer is not that damned many.'

How -- given what he said then -- does Cheney get off challenging the judgment and strength of those who argue that we are bogged down and shedding blood today? Is Saddam worth the lives of 1,046 (at last count) dead Americans, and 7,000 injured Americans?"

posted by Timbre4 @ 1:39 PM