Cheney says Iraq not worth the casualties.......1992

[bluedog]

************ anyone know about this ...is this story right?


According to a Seattle newspaper, in August 1992, when Dick Cheney was Secretary of Defense in the George Herbert Walker Bush administration, he made a public speech in Seattle 18 months after the end of the first Iraqi War.

After the speech, he entertained questions from the audience and responded to a particular question by saying, "The question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very damned many. So I think we got it right -- we were not going to go get bogged down in the problems of trying to take over and govern Iraq." (Imagine that.)


http://www.mccookgazette.com/story/1134222.html

[Jacobin]

1. But he hadn't gotten his millions in bribes from Halliburton then

Its a different story now, oh and don't forget 'everything changed after 9-11', we can now invade and conquer anyone and claim its for revenge of 9-11.

[arcane1]

2. 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11

9/11, um, changed, um, something.... yeah, that's it. We were attacked by people who hate Saddam, so by taking out Saddam, we make the terrorists happier, and thus less likely to kill more of us :crazy: