Cheney says Iraq not worth the casualties

http://www.mccookgazette.com/story/1134222.html

Mike Hendricks
Saturday, January 7, 2006

According to a Seattle newspaper, in August 1992, when Dick Cheney was Secretary of Defense in the George Herbert Walker Bush administration, he made a public speech in Seattle 18 months after the end of the first Iraqi War.

After the speech, he entertained questions from the audience and responded to a particular question by saying, "The question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very damned many. So I think we got it right -- we were not going to go get bogged down in the problems of trying to take over and govern Iraq." (Imagine that.)

The first Iraqi war was initiated as a response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait as well as retribution for his alleged "gassing" of the Kurds. Approximately 150 American servicemen were killed in the first Iraqi war.

Now we fast-forward almost 14 years to the second war with Iraq, a war that was started on bogus information; that Iraq was in possession of weapons of mass destruction they intended to use and that we must do it to them before they did it to us. The Bush administration looked only at the evidence that supported the existence of WMDs and conveniently ignored all evidence to the contrary.

Fuck you.

Warmest regards,
sakabatou.

ps: may the ghosts of the tens of thousands that have died at your behest haunt you for all time.

Fuck you.

No warm regards. Just, fuck you and fuck Special Agent traitor Mike, too.

sfexpat2000

Cheney can eat shit and die. :grr: No one in this admin speaks for me.

...Cheneyed up.

Enough.

Speaking of "enough"...when will we have enough iron-clad evidence of wrong-doing on Crashcart and Scumsfeld to put them out to pasture in a federal exercise yard?

as Saddam supposedly gassed at Halabja?

They have some weird perspective down in DC.

The posted quotation says that "a Seattle newspaper" reported this Cheney quotation. To its credit, the newspaper published the story during the 2004 campaign. It's too bad the point didn't get wider circulation then. The MSM paid more attention to the Swift Boat liars' carping about Kerry's medals.

Link: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/192908_cheney29.html

Props to Charles Pope of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer for going beyond paraphrasing press releases and doing some actual journalistic digging. (What a concept.)

I love my home town papers. we are a little too far from DC to be too influenced by the corruption.

They carry a little too much AP news for my taste though.

There was no money in it.

He peddles whatever mind-drugs are selling today.

Not in 1992, and not in 2002.

So what happened? Did someone promise Cheney he would live forever?

Go fuck yourself.

I feel much better now.

A proud USA citizen

I assume his New World Order dream is in sight and I hope the real Americans wake him up soon and themselves.

was the Secretary of Defense. What were they thinking? :shrug:

clean slate.

You SOB...... piece of shit.:grr:

Haliburton lost millions and millions of dollars under the Clinton administration through defense budget cuts. (this is conjecture, but I'm sure I'm not far off)

Suddenly, 10 years later, the casualties are worth it when he can line his pockets with the blood money he gets for rebuilding the country that "wasn't worth the casualties."

I hope this sick bastard burns in hell.

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"go fuck yourself"...........and eat more bacon.