See Dick flip-flop

From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:

Cheney changed his view on Iraq
He said in '92 Saddam not worth U.S. casualties

By Charles Pope
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Washington correspondent

WASHINGTON -- In an assessment that differs sharply with his view today, Dick Cheney more than a decade ago defended the decision to leave Saddam Hussein in power after the first Gulf War, telling a Seattle audience that capturing Saddam wouldn't be worth additional U.S. casualties or the risk of getting "bogged down in the problems of trying to take over and govern Iraq."...

"And the question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth?" Cheney said then in response to a question.

"And the answer is not very 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."...

What more do you need, Mr. and Ms. Swing Voter, to admit that they knew full well what lay ahead of us if we invaded Iraq? They put the lives of thousands of American men and women (not to mention many thousands more innocent Iraqis) at risk based on a stack of lies and next to no planning.

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