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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-19-07 10:57 AM
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Not everyone in the Bush administration favored an Iraq invasion
http://www.suntimes.com/news/quicktakes/515783,CST-NWS-qt19.article

Then and now

Not everyone in the Bush administration favored an Iraq invasion.

Excerpts from the arguments years ago of one of those who did not:

"Once you got to Iraq and took it over, and 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. . . . It's a quagmire if you go that far and try to take over Iraq. . . . The other thing was casualties. . . . How many additional dead Americans is Saddam worth? And our judgment was, not very many . . ."

A complete video of Vice President Cheney's 1994 analysis is at:

http://www.unfogged.com/archives/week_2007_08_05.html

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liberalmuse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-19-07 11:05 AM
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1. That was before Cheney...
was completely indwelled by Satan.
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notadmblnd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-19-07 11:14 AM
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2. Dontcha know... "911 changed everything"
That is the new meme. I just wish when they repeat that line to the MSM talking heads, they would be asked, to explain to us again what Saddam Hussian had to do with 911.
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valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-19-07 12:43 PM
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3. 911 changed truth. nt
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-19-07 12:47 PM
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4. and as Jon Stewart noted
even the space-time continuum :rofl:
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