Dick Cheney on why America shouldn't invade Iraq (1994)
Dick Cheney in a 1994 interview explaining how invading Iraq would lead to a "quagmire".
He makes several extremely salient and visionary points:
1. No one would support a US invasion, least of all important Arab allies. This would make it an unpopular American occupation;
2. In the absence of a strong central government, Iraq would essentially go to pieces, splintering along religious and ethnic lines; and
3. It would, to use his word, become a quagmire.
I guess someone could explain this away with some 9/11 gymnastics...
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