That Dick Cheney 'it's a quagmire' video

Michael T, Hollywood, CA — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:25:40 GMT

It's amazing how becoming vice-president can swing one's opinion around 180 degrees. This is obviously the Anakin Skywalker version of Dick, before he was converted to Darth Cheney.

That Dick Cheney 'it's a quagmire' video

Mike — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:51:36 GMT

It's further proof that to say what is happening in Iraq was unforeseen is a blatant lie. It's either that or our leaders were taken over by pod people.

That Dick Cheney 'it's a quagmire' video

KW — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:52:36 GMT

It's amazing how 10 years of watching Saddam Hussein repeatedly violate terms of surrender, plot assassination attempts on former presidents, and continually fire at our pilots who were enforcing the no-fly-zone can swing one's opinion around 180 degrees, also. And that's leaving out many other items too numerous and flame-baiting to mention.

Here's a thought, let's search through the files of Woodrow Wilson's administration to see what they thought about what it would have meant to march into Berlin in 1918. And furthermore, Carthage should be sacked...

That Dick Cheney 'it's a quagmire' video

John Brak — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 22:56:08 GMT

I'd like to see a poll that quizzes people about how much they actually know about the Iraq war before they ask them if they think it's going well or not. Then give the results of the poll based on those that answered 60% or more of the questions correctly versus the bottom 40%. I'll bet I can find that 29% who think the war's going well pretty easily. Wonder if I'd be able to find a similar poll statistic as well about the administration?

That Dick Cheney 'it's a quagmire' video

Charles Few, Memes, Iowa — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 16:00:59 GMT

KW, apparently you didn't watch the clip. Cheney doesn't address the should v. shouldn't question of Saddam, he addresses the question of "what would happen" if we toppled him. And then a decade later says (of the very things he mentions) "I don't think anyone could have predicted. . ."

That wasn't a change in heart about Saddam, that's just lieing to the American people about what we were facing. If the American people hadn't been sold a bill of goods starting with "mushroom clouds" and ending with "greeted as liberators" maybe the Bush administration wouldn't be suffering from severe credibility problems.

As for your laundry list of Saddam violations, but um, that wasn't why we went to war. Those things simply weren't listed by Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Powell/Rice because Saddam was neutered; he could rattle his sabre all he liked, but his gunners couldn't hit our planes, his plots were ludicrous and his military capability shot.

That Dick Cheney 'it's a quagmire' video

Dred Scott — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:24:04 GMT

This whole "Cheney wasn't VP 10 years before" meme is a false argument. The point isn't whether he was VP, or what Saddam did, but rather what we were told the outcome of invasion would be, and what Cheney knew, and hid from the American Public, all along.

Jeers to our media for taking 5 years to find this gem.

That Dick Cheney 'it's a quagmire' video

encke king, new york city, ny — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:47:13 GMT

Will no mainstream media ask the question: who is making billions of dollars in profit from this war? and what is the connection of Dick Cheney to those profiteers?

That Dick Cheney 'it's a quagmire' video

Yoda — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 03:14:29 GMT

Dick, Dick, the darkside it is strong. Resist it you must. There lies madness and death.

That Dick Cheney 'it's a quagmire' video

Wayne, TN — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:04:39 GMT

"Then give the results of the poll based on those that answered 60% or more of the questions correctly versus the bottom 40%. I'll bet I can find that 29% who think the war's going well pretty easily. Wonder if I'd be able to find a similar poll statistic as well about the administration?
John Brak
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Making your own decisions and forming opinions based on what other people think, or at least claim to think, would make one a cypher at best and a stooge at worst.

Interesting article today about how college students know diddly squat about history, even recent history, and get their world view from Fake News pundits like John Stewart and Stephen Colbert.

A simplistic view of the events of the Gulfwar and its aftermath excludes the contributing factors.
After the first Gulfwar no Arab state would cooperate with any planned US invasion of Iraq. There would have been no way of supplying troops in the field.

The North Korean missile purchase deal shows Saddam was still a threat, add to that the fact that his IIS was performing Chemical Warfare experiments up until the day of the 48 hour ultimatum and his supposedly harmless regime looks a lot less benign.

That Dick Cheney 'it's a quagmire' video

Justin, Washington DC — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 22:53:50 GMT

Actually Wayne, a study done in april by the Pew Research Center found that viewers of the Daily Show and Colbert Report to be among the most knowledgeable with regards to current events.

Now I believe that just because someone believed something 10 years ago doesn't mean that they should always be required to hold the same belief in the present.

Also, The two Iraq Wars were very different in a multitude of respects, so I believe its wrong to say well he didn't want to go into bagdad in 92 so he shouldnt have wanted to go into bagdad in 2003 (02?). However to be perfectly honest I thought we should have gone into bagdad the first time when there was such a huge global support and a clear uncontroversial reason to move in, as opposed to the second time when these reasons were not present.