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In 1992, who said the following about the 1991 Gulf War?

"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 final point that I think needs to be made is this question of casualties. I don't think you could have done all of that without significant additional U.S. casualties, and while everybody was tremendously impressed with the low cost of the conflict, for the 146 Americans who were killed in action and for their families, it wasn't a cheap war.

"And the question in my mind is, how many additional American casualties is Saddam (Hussein) worth? And the answer is, not that damned many. So, I think we got it right, both when we decided to expel him from Kuwait, but also when the President made the decision that we'd achieved our objectives and we were not going to go get bogged down in the problems of trying to take over and govern Iraq."




Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/192908_cheney29.html

Date: 16 Sep 2006 23:14 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com
That was oldthink, citizen. Get with the newthink.

Date: 17 Sep 2006 00:08 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] drewkitty.livejournal.com
It's cheating to hold neoRepublicans to their own words!

Don't you realize there's a (culture) war on?!?

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