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Suprise? Not! Cheney Predicted Iraq Quagmire. Video Link.
« on: 2007-08-14 12:50:35 » |
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The Video you really want to see
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3469772914268577117
Despite the administrations continuous asssertions that the current situation in Iraq was unpredictable, it is now apparent that Cheney predicted that the invasion of Iraq would lead to a "Quagmire," predicted unacceptably high casualty rates and predicted the problems of finding a suitable puppet government.
Which means that the reductions in troop requitrements and falsified cost estimates were done knowing - as anyone with moderate military COINOPS knowledge would, precisely what the outcome would be. Which strongly implies that the current mess is deliberate.
Can somebody impeach him already?
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Transcript of above video dated 94-04-17 follows. Answers are by Cheney:
Q: Do you think the U.S., or U.N. forces, should have moved into Baghdad?
A: No.
Q: Why not?
A: Because if we’d gone to Baghdad we would have been all alone. There wouldn’t have been anybody else with us. There would have been a U.S. occupation of Iraq. None of the Arab forces that were willing to fight with us in Kuwait were willing to invade Iraq.
[color=yellow]Once you got to Iraq and took it over, took down Saddam Hussein’s government, then what are you going to put in its place? That’s a very volatile part of the world, and if you take down the central government of Iraq, you could very easily end up seeing pieces of Iraq fly off: part of it, the Syrians would like to have to the west, part of it — eastern Iraq — the Iranians would like to claim, they fought over it for eight years. In the north you’ve got the Kurds, and if the Kurds spin loose and join with the Kurds in Turkey, then you threaten the territorial integrity of Turkey.
It’s a quagmire if you go that far and try to take over Iraq.
The other thing was casualties. Everyone was impressed with the fact we were able to do our job with as few casualties as we had. But for the 146 Americans killed in action, and for their families — it wasn’t a cheap war. And the question for the president, in terms of whether or not we went on to Baghdad, took additional casualties in an effort to get Saddam Hussein, was how many additional dead Americans is Saddam worth? Our judgment was, not very many, and I think we got it right.
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