Cheney: "to get American military...involved in a civil war inside Iraq would...be a quagmire"

[ProSense]

Well, that's what the hypocrite said in 1991, from Think Progress:

The true “slow bleed” strategy is leaving U.S. troops mired in the middle of an Iraqi civil war. There was a time when Cheney recognized that. On April 7, 1991, appearing on ABC’s This Week, http://www.thebostonchannel.com/helenthomas/10956246/detail.html">Cheney said:

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.

A picture is worth a thousand words: Cheney and Gonzales

[MidwestTransplant]

1. Smart guy that Cheny circa 1991

[rodeodance]

2. and Cheney boy forgot to answer the questions (PLAN) this time around:

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.

[cureautismnow]

3. If the 4th estate would do their jobs...

...they'd throw these words back in his face and ask him to explain his flip-flop. It's up to Congress now to do their jobs and remove this evil man from power before more innocent lives are lost in vain.