Cheney, in 1994, Warning That An Invasion of Iraq Would Lead to 'Quagmire'

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

Wow!  Cheney certainly got it so right in 1994.
 
Richard
 

Dick Cheney '94: Invading Baghdad Would Create Quagmire
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Video Surfaces of Cheney, in 1994, Warning That An Invasion of Iraq Would
Lead to 'Quagmire' 
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A: Because if we'd gone to Baghdad we would have been all alone. There
wouldn't have been anybody else with us. There would have been a U.S.
occupation of Iraq. None of the Arab forces that were willing to fight with
us in Kuwait were willing to invade Iraq. 

Once you got to Iraq and took it over, took down Saddam Hussein's
government, then what are you going to put in its place? That's a very
volatile part of the world, and if you take down the central government of
Iraq, you could very easily end up seeing pieces of Iraq fly off: part of
it, the Syrians would like to have to the west, part of it -- eastern Iraq
-- the Iranians would like to claim, they fought over it for eight years. In
the north you've got the Kurds, and if the Kurds spin loose and join with
the Kurds in Turkey, then you threaten the territorial integrity of Turkey. 

It's a quagmire if you go that far and try to take over Iraq. 

The other thing was casualties. Everyone was impressed with the fact we were
able to do our job with as few casualties as we had. But for the 146
Americans killed in action, and for their families -- it wasn't a cheap war.
And the question for the president, in terms of whether or not we went on to
Baghdad, took additional casualties in an effort to get Saddam Hussein, was
how many additional dead Americans is Saddam worth? 

Our judgment was, not very many, and I think we got it right. 


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