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Cheney in '92: Removing Saddam Is Not Worth American Casualties [VIDEO]

Posted by Adam Howard at 5:35 AM on September 28, 2007.


Oddly, Dick Cheney gets something right about Iraq, although it was fifteen years ago.
Cheney In '92: Removing Saddam Not Worth American Casualties

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We have seen footage like this before. This past summer a video from 1994 was unearthed on CSPAN showing Dick Cheney, then a respected former Secretary of Defense, instead of evil incarnate, where he calmly laid out why an invasion of Iraq would be a quagmire. Still, I think it's worthwhile to keep showing this footage when it comes to light because it's just so startling how much hubris and unmitigated gall the tragic events of 9/11 provided the entire Bush administration and Dick Cheney in particular. Naturally if this video, like the '94 one, becomes a big hit on YouTube and gets national exposure the Right will fall back on their favorite "that was then, this is now" argument. But the situation on the ground in Iraq didn't change after 9/11 so Cheney's analysis fifteen years ago does make sense. Check out the video to your right for more.

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Adam Howard is the editor of PEEK.


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Posted by: KaptainSpiffy on Sep 28, 2007 6:03 AM   
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need more be said?

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Incredibly human an reasonable
Posted by: swissliberal on Sep 28, 2007 6:22 AM   
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How could an obviously reasonable, insightful, well informed and probably empathic person (he said he cares about the dead) like the one shown become one of the most psychopathic leaders of our time? What was his trauma in the mid nineties?

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» RE: Cheney was always Cheney Posted by: PakiBoy
When Cheney was Cheney
Posted by: Oghbeewanbenkenobee on Sep 28, 2007 7:29 AM   
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Yup everything he said makes sense..notice he said "we destroyed he military capabilities to threaten his neighbors"..so back in 1992..it was done, over, fait accompli, etc..no talk about WMD and Al Quaida..just some plain good rational thinking..so whats changed.
1)Project for a New American Century is whats changed, otherwise known as PNAC, the Neocon blueprint for the Middle east.
2) We are witnessing how grand the Propaganda Machine is working today and the level of "Psychosis" and Paranoia has reached epidemic proportions.
3) to gain further insight into Cheney's "madness" read this..
Zbigniew Brzezinski - The Grand Chessboard
4) I have stated many times before and will say this again, this whole march to war is an exercise in madness, collective madness as represented by a few "elites" in the WhiteHouse????? Maybe.
5) in fact we can see now, thanks to the magic of video, that America is in fact at war with itself, there will be the need of a great panacea to heal this wound, will we recover from it?
Dunno..its time we as Americans start to rally around the truth if we are going to "heal" from this madness.

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WE ???
Posted by: VZEQICVA on Sep 28, 2007 7:45 AM   
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Cheney's repeated use of the pronoun "we" is very telling. Long before the rest of us had any idea who he was, he called the shots. Years ago someone told me that "in America , you have a government within your government. The American people just don't know it yet". I think of that often. That's exactly what has happened on the years. Interestly enough, some of the main players never ran for public office. Stayed on the sidelines. Thanks, ANNA

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..and the truth shall set you free..........and it can also......
Posted by: eosrk on Sep 28, 2007 8:49 AM   
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.....damn you to hell, also!!!

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Papaj
Posted by: papajsr on Sep 28, 2007 8:54 AM   
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Is it not obvious that Chenney knew exactly what was going to happen if we attacked Iraq? He spelled it out in 92 and lo and behold, it has followed his predictions to the letter. It would appear that the mess in Iraq is exactly what Chenney wanted.

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» RE: Papaj Posted by: peacelf
Cheney's underpinnings for post 911 Iraq
Posted by: peacelf on Sep 28, 2007 9:56 AM   
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Cheney lays out the conditions for removal of Saddam in that early speech: long-term U.S. military commitment, heavy casualties, who to leave in charge of a new Iraq, etc. There's only one thing missing.

We know from the PNAC (Project for a New American Century) "defense strategy" that in order to ensure american hegemony in the world, we just need a catalyst event like Pearl Harbor to push forth a pre-emptive war policy on the "Axis of Evil": Iraq, Iran and North Korea.

Here's one scenario which might explain it...

At that time, the 1992 Cheney did not have the power to allow a 911-like attack. In 2000, he did have the power and a numb-skull president who was stupid enough to let it happen. They simply ignored all the warnings and signs of an impending terrorist attack, and let it happen.

One minute you're reading My Pet Goat, the next, you're invading Iraq. Seems innocent enough.

Peace

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Very interesting
Posted by: kepstein7777 on Sep 29, 2007 5:25 AM   
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In the past, Cheney often came across as articulate, intelligent, practical, and undramatic, even in 2000 when they put him up against Lieberman.

It just goes to show that you can't trust a politician based on what they say or how they say it. Regardless of how prudent he may sound--especially compared with what we hear these days--the Gulf War and its aftermath were genocide for the Iraqis.

One might wonder if he is more dangerous than GWB because he can make the worst evil sound like a practical alternative, whereas everything GWB says sounds like a madman trying to take over the world. I guess it depends on your audience.

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what kind of government do you want US to create
Posted by: illuminatislave on Sep 30, 2007 2:59 PM   
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Dick Cheney ask 'what kind of government do you want US to create?' What gives the U.S. the right to create the Iraqi's government? Shouldn't the Iraqi people work this out themselves? Now we are witnessing the failure of an American imposed Iraq government. An Iraq government which acknowledges the U.S. as their lord and master will never happen which is what we are witnessing at this very moment. The quagmire continues with the international bankers supplying both sides with weapons paid for by the American public to continue killing each other. The rich get richer, the poor die for the rich. For those of you who are about to die we salute you.

The PNAC reprensented by powerful politicians many of them Zionist, was the machine used by the international bankers to carry out their plans for war. Needing a catalyst to propel America into war, the bankers did what they always do. They created another false flag resulting in the deaths of 3000 men women and children in the WTC. They use false flags everytime they want to create war. WWI, WWII, Korean war, Vietnam, and now Iraq all created with false flags. Each time Americans suck it up like soda. Using MSM which they own to spew their propaganda, the American public including myself bought this hook line and sinker. I think I'm a flounder. At first the PNAC using MSM tried to lay the blame of the false flag on Saddam Hussien. When that didn't work they made up the boogeyman (terrorist). The real boogeymen live in a big white house in Washington D.C. The dream of the PNAC's New World Order (world domination of energy resources) was crushed with the realization of Russias deep oil well drilling. Russia now the largest producer of oil, and second largest supplier has made PNAC's NWO just a distant fantasy.

Bushco, and the U.S. congress (both republican and democrat) are just another machine used by the bankers to continue to perpetuate escalate war. America is bankrupt and the bankers want them to write another bad check for 200 billion which the American people will have to somehow pick up the tab. What kind of government have we created in our own country?

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