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Monday, July 28, 2008

Dick Cheney - he was right!

Wow. This is incredible footage from C-SPAN from back in 1994. Back then, Cheney was a part of the Project for the New American Century, a controversial neo-conservative think tank that promoted the first Gulf War and American oil interests in the region - and even then he got it right on Iraq.

In this footage, he explains that we had made the right choice to NOT PURSUE sending troops into BAGHDAD to go after Saddam Hussein. Why? Because if we had gone into Baghdad....

.... "we would have been all alone"

...."none of the Arab forces ... would have been willing to invade Iraq"

...."if you take down the central government of Iraq, you could easily see pieces fly off"

...."IT'S A QUAGMIRE"

So remind me again, why was it a good idea less than ten years later????

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