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'94 Cheney: Invading Baghdad Would Create Quagmire

Yet another example of how the American people were LIED to in the run up to the Iraq War, foisted upon the nation in a climate of fear and paralysis. Read on for more...

It had been obvious for ten years or more what the implications were for pre-emptive invasion of a sovereign nation. And yet in the days before the Iraq war began, we heard from the very most senior Bush officials, such lines as:

02/07/03: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, to U.S. troops in Aviano, Italy: "It is unknowable how long that conflict will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months."

03/04/03: Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at a breakfast with reporters: "What you'd like to do is have it be a short, short conflict. . . . Iraq is much weaker than they were back in the '90s," when its forces were routed from Kuwait.

03/11/03: Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, in a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars: "The Iraqi people understand what this crisis is about. Like the people of France in the 1940s, they view us as their hoped-for liberator."

03/16/03: Vice President Cheney, on NBC's Meet the Press: "I think things have gotten so bad inside Iraq, from the standpoint of the Iraqi people, my belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. . . . I think it will go relatively quickly, . . . (in) weeks rather than months." He predicted that regular Iraqi soldiers would not "put up such a struggle" and that even "significant elements of the Republican Guard . . . are likely to step aside."

Posted by Tyler Suchman on August 16, 2007 02:12 PM | | | '94 Cheney: Invading Baghdad Would Create Quagmire

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