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@tomic
Administrator
USA
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 Posted - 10/15/2002 : 17:54:51
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April 1991 New York Times
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"If you're going to go in and try to topple Saddam Hussein," Cheney said, "you have to go to Baghdad. Once you've got Baghdad, it's not clear what you do with it. It's not clear what kind of government you would put in place of the one that's currently there now. Is it going to be a Shia regime, a Sunni regime or a Kurdish regime? Or one that tilts toward the Baathists, or one that tilts toward the Islamic fundamentalists? How much credibility is that government going to have if it's set up by the United States military when it's there? How long does the United States military have to stay to protect the people that sign on for that government, and what happens to it once we leave?"
Dick Cheney
Are we to assume that this means he has an answer to these questions he is not sharing with us? Somehow I am guessing that the poor excuses of 1991 just don't fit into todays headlong ruch to war. Can you get much more ironic than this?
Here's some more on the subject:
The Fifty-first State?
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/11/fallows.htm
@tomic
Gravity, not just a good idea...it's the law!
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NottyImp
Skeptic Friend
United Kingdom
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Posted - 10/16/2002 : 04:26:56 [Permalink]
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Yeah, but civilian government is sooooo boring, man! Let's have some more war!
"My body is a temple - I desecrate it daily." |
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Mespo_man
Skeptic Friend
USA
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Posted - 10/16/2002 : 11:00:08 [Permalink]
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quote:
Are we to assume that this means he has an answer to these questions he is not sharing with us? [@tomic]
Apparently @tomic, the answer that Cheney is using was uttered by Admiral Farragut at the Battle of Mobile Bay.
"Damn the torpedoes. Full speed ahead."
(:raig
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