Gilsch
09-30-2004, 01:22 AM
I hate using the word Flip Flop in the title of this thread, but since the neocons seem to like using the term on everybody else but them...
Here's what Cheney said in a Q and A after a speech to the Discovery Institute in 1992. " And the question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth?" Cheney said then in response to a question.
"And the answer is not very damned many. So I think we got it right, both when we decided to expel him from Kuwait, but also when the president made the decision that we'd achieved our objectives and we were not going to go get bogged down in the problems of trying to take over and govern Iraq." ( But, but I thought we were gonna be greeted with roses and as liberators...?)
About 146 Americans were killed in the Gulf War. More than 1,000 U.S. soldiers have died in the invasion of Iraq and its aftermath.
Going to Baghdad, Cheney said in 1992, would require a much different approach militarily than fighting in the open desert outside the capital, a type of warfare that U.S. troops were not familiar, or comfortable fighting. (Ahhh, but last year we were comfortable in that type of warfare. Got it.)
"All of a sudden you've got a battle you're fighting in a major built-up city, a lot of civilians are around, significant limitations on our ability to use our most effective technologies and techniques," Cheney said.
"Once we had rounded him up and gotten rid of his government, then the question is what do you put in its place? You know, you then have accepted the responsibility for governing Iraq."Emphasis mine.
It's not a joke guys. I'd be laughing my ass off at the hypocrisy of it all if the whole thing wasn't so ridiculously sad and pathetic.
Link (http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/192908_cheney29.html)
I hope no registration is needed.
Here's what Cheney said in a Q and A after a speech to the Discovery Institute in 1992. " And the question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth?" Cheney said then in response to a question.
"And the answer is not very damned many. So I think we got it right, both when we decided to expel him from Kuwait, but also when the president made the decision that we'd achieved our objectives and we were not going to go get bogged down in the problems of trying to take over and govern Iraq." ( But, but I thought we were gonna be greeted with roses and as liberators...?)
About 146 Americans were killed in the Gulf War. More than 1,000 U.S. soldiers have died in the invasion of Iraq and its aftermath.
Going to Baghdad, Cheney said in 1992, would require a much different approach militarily than fighting in the open desert outside the capital, a type of warfare that U.S. troops were not familiar, or comfortable fighting. (Ahhh, but last year we were comfortable in that type of warfare. Got it.)
"All of a sudden you've got a battle you're fighting in a major built-up city, a lot of civilians are around, significant limitations on our ability to use our most effective technologies and techniques," Cheney said.
"Once we had rounded him up and gotten rid of his government, then the question is what do you put in its place? You know, you then have accepted the responsibility for governing Iraq."Emphasis mine.
It's not a joke guys. I'd be laughing my ass off at the hypocrisy of it all if the whole thing wasn't so ridiculously sad and pathetic.
Link (http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/192908_cheney29.html)
I hope no registration is needed.