Cheney in 1994: toppling Saddam Hussein in 1991 would have led to “quagmire”
Someone’s found interview footage of Dick Cheney being interviewed in 1994 about the 1991 Gulf War. Should US or UN forces have pressed on to occupy Baghdad, the interviewer wonders? No, says Cheney: it would have led to a quagmire. Anyway, he continues, the Administration concluded that when it came to figuring out how many US servicemen deaths it would be worth to take down Saddam Hussein, the answer was “not very many”.
Which, when you stop to think about it, doesn’t do a great deal for the theory that the current Administration went to war with Iraq because of ‘unfinished business’ post-91…