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Old 08-15-2007, 01:02 PM   #1 (permalink)
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In this 1994 interview, Cheney says that bringing down the Sadam regime in Iraq would have created a "quagmire."

Why, if that was the case in 1994, was it not obvious to him and GW that it would also be the case in 2003?
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In this 1994 interview, Cheney says that bringing down the Sadam regime in Iraq would have created a "quagmire."

Why, if that was the case in 1994, was it not obvious to him and GW that it would also be the case in 2003?
Lord Have Mercy if Obama is elected president who said he would attack Pakistan. For I don't think he will ever do that.

Iraq may as well serve as the gates of whatever the devil calls it, because it is sure hell over there.
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I hate to admit it but Cheney was right!
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In this 1994 interview, Cheney says that bringing down the Sadam regime in Iraq would have created a "quagmire."

Why, if that was the case in 1994, was it not obvious to him and GW that it would also be the case in 2003?
Why was it not a bad idea to invade in 2003 and not 1994?

9/11!!! War on Terror!!!! 9/11!!!! Smoking Gun! Mushroom cloud! 9/11!!! WMDs!!!! Al-Qaeda connections!!! 9/11!!!! He was evil! Well that last one was true, he was evil, but so what? There are other evil men in power in this world yet we don't seem to give a crap about them. Ummmm... 9/11 that's why!!!

Ok, here's the serious part:
Apparently, quagmires don't exist when it's a "slam dunk" case. Saddam Hussein and Iraq didn't change much between 1994 and 2003. Saddam was brutal dictator then, and in 2003. The sects and the factions or whatever were there then, and are obviously still here now. You hear about Syrian and Iranian weapons and stuff pouring into Iraq, but wait? Weren't Iran and Syria one of the reasons why we didn't try to take down Saddam back then according to Mr. Cheney? We would've had to go it alone then, and we are basically going it alone now. There would have been many, many American and Iraqi casualties if we took down the government and Saddam then and... well you get the idea.

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