The Untold Story of the Cheney 'Quagmire' Video

[DeepModem Mom]

WP, "The Sleuth," Mary Ann Akers
The Untold Story of the Cheney 'Quagmire' Video

When the C-SPAN producer toiling in obscurity last month reached for the tape, he had no clue how juicy a nugget he had unearthed. The tape was labeled simply, "Life and Career of Dick Cheney"; dated April 15, 1994....

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At the time of the interview 13 years ago, Cheney was the ex-defense secretary, camped out at the American Enterprise Institute and contemplating a run for president. Asked why he didn't think U.S. forces should have gone on to Baghdad during the first Persian Gulf War, he asked rhetorically, "How many additional dead Americans is Saddam worth?" He added, "It's a quagmire if you go that far and try to take over Iraq."

The now famous "quagmire" tape, which has gotten over half a million views on YouTube, may well have remained buried in the archives for another decade (and doesn't Cheney wish it had!) if it hadn't been for that one C-SPAN producer, an affable young Irishman named Emmanuel Touhey....The Cheney tape re-aired for the first time since 1994 on July 11, 2007. But it wasn't until C-SPAN aired the interview again on August 9 (on the same channel, at the same time) that the blogosphere noticed. As far as we know, the Cheney remarks on Iraq were first noticed by the site Grand Theft Country....

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Now, about that faceless voice in the Cheney "quagmire" video -- it belongs to Bruce Collins, the corporate vice president and general counsel of C-SPAN who held the same title when he interviewed the former defense secretary and future vice president way back in 1994.....When he showed up at Cheney's office, he said the future Veep asked, "How much time do you need -- one, two minutes?" Collins explained it was an hour-long interview. Cheney grumbled that he hadn't planned on that much time. Collins said the interview was for C-SPAN's "American Profile" series, which would give the audience a chance to learn more about Dick Cheney the man, where he comes from, how he thinks, how he lives.

"You mean, touchy feely?" Cheney replied, according to Collins.

"This is an opportunity to go beyond policy," Collins recalled saying.

To which Cheney growled, "Well, you know I'm a policy kinda guy."

And there you have it: Dick Cheney is not a touchy-feely kinda guy.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2007/08/the_untold_story_of_the_cheney.html

LINK TO VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0FbD1UOpsI

[shain from kane]

1. Out of touchy Cheney. And out of feelings. "...not a touchy-feely kinda guy."

[zbdent]

2. And wasn't he doing this to dissuade any action by Clinton?

Gee ... isn't that "treasony"?

[peacetalksforall]

3. Does that mean that he is not going to cry when he has to admit

that he caused death, dismemberment, lifelong health issues of the very serious kind, stole, lied, and led massive deceptions and destroyed infrastructures for his own agenda, friends, and his boss-barons?

[peacetalksforall]

4. Are the freepers going to go after C-Span?

[havocmom]

5. Count on it