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This has been all over the net, so you may well have seen it elsewhere.
But just in case you haven't, I'm posting it here. Every living American should watch this video. It's chilling, really, to see Dick Cheney prove that he knew the invasion of Iraq was ill-advised from the jump.
Listen the various points he makes in this video. They were all as true on the day we invaded Iraq as they were when he spoke these words in 1994.
Shame on him, and shame on all of us for letting these thugs get away with this in our name:
Of course, Cheney wasn't alone. I've often shared the following passage from George H.W. Bush and Brent Scowcroft's 1998 book, "A World Transformed," but it, too, bears revisiting:
"Trying to eliminate Saddam...would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. Apprehending him was probably impossible.... We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq.... there was no viable "exit strategy" we could see, violating another of our principles....""Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land. It would have been a dramatically different -- and perhaps barren -- outcome."
Again, shame on all of us.
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