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.
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