CHENEY: "How many casualties should the United States accept (in Iraq)?"

[Bluebear]

“If you’re going to go in and try to topple Saddam Hussein, you have to go to Baghdad. Once you’ve got Baghdad, it’s not clear what you will do with it. It’s not clear what kind of government you would put in place of the one that’s currently there now. Is it going to be a Shia regime, a Sunni regime or a Kurdish regime? Or one that tilts toward the Ba’athists, or one that tilts toward the Islamic fundamentalists. How much credibility is that government going to have if it’s set up by the United States military when it’s there? How long does the United States military have to stay to protect the people that sign on for the government, and what happens to it once we leave?” Dick Cheney, April 13, 1991 New York Times interview (explaining why the Bush (41) administration did not pursue “regime change” during the Gulf War.)

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"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?" Dick Cheney, during first Gulf War

[Swamp Rat]

1. HE'S ASKING THOSE QUESTIONS NOW?!?!?!?!?!?

[Bluebear]

2. Certainly not. This was in 1991.

I would say "flip flop"! But I hate empty Republican slogans!

[Swamp Rat]

3. LOL!

Oops! I skipped the last two sentences. :D

Nevertheless, he apparently did not spend the time to answer his own, decade old questions that are certainly prescient now.

What a dumb, evil piece of shit.

[Imagevision]

4. In 1991 Sr. Bush didn't want to invade for WMD's or the oil and Regime change