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Tuesday, April 13, 2004
That Was Then, This is Now
I think we'd have had to hunt him down. And once we'd done that and we'd gotten rid of Saddam Hussein and his government, then we'd have had to put another government in its place.
What kind of government? Should it be a Sunni government or Shi'i government or a Kurdish government or Ba'athist regime? Or maybe we want to bring in some of the Islamic fundamentalists? How long would we have had to stay in Baghdad to keep that government in place? What would happen to the government once U.S. forces withdrew? How many casualties should the United States accept in that effort to try to create clarity and stability in a situation that is inherently unstable?
I think it is vitally important for a President to know when to use military force. I think it is also very important for him to know when not to commit U.S. military force. And it's my view that the President got it right both times, that it would have been a mistake for us to get bogged down in the quagmire inside Iraq.
Who said this? Ted Kennedy? John Kerry? George Bush Sr?
Nope. Dick Cheney in April 1991. How things change. And the more they stay the same -- apparently he didn't give any thought to the question about what to do in the event we took over over the next 13 years.
(Kudos to the Center for American Progress for finding this)
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