MUST READ: Bush-Cheney Flip-Flops Cost America In Blood - Seattle P-I

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The Bush-Cheney campaign has gleefully labeled John Kerry a flip-flopper. But what of Bush-Cheney flip-flops? They're getting a lot less ink, but America is paying a price in blood.

Little noticed, and worthy of lengthy consideration, is a speech delivered by then-Defense Secretary Dick Cheney in 1992 to the Discovery Institute in Seattle. The words of our future vice president -- defending the decision to end Gulf War I without occupying Iraq -- eerily foretell today's morass. Here is what Cheney said in '92:

"I would guess if we had gone in there, I would still have forces in Baghdad today. We'd be running the country. We would not have been able to get everybody out and bring everybody home. And the final point that I think needs to be made is this question of casualties. I don't think you could have done all of that without significant additional U.S. casualties. And while everybody was tremendously impressed with the low cost of the (1991) conflict, for the 146 Americans who were killed in action and for their families, it wasn't a cheap war.

And the question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam (Hussein) worth? And the answer is not that 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."

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Link: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/connelly/192828_joel29.html

The deadliest flip flop of all!!!

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Onedit: Let's see if the MUST READ helps, LOL!

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museum, or TV station, or in some viewer's basement, there is a tape of this 12-year old video. Can you IMAGINE what MoveOn.org or Michael Moore could do with it in a frantic week of work?

The Discovery Institute was no help, and I couldn't find anything using Google. I doubt though, that in 1992, they were archiving video for Internet use.

But you're correct, I bet somebody... somewhere... has it. And wouldn't THAT be a nice little gem to give to MoveOn, or the DNC???

Damn...

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Or did you mean I could put it there as well???

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I can't tell if anybody gives a shit, LOL !!!

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Right here.

Oh, and...

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And thanks for the kick, man...

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