Wednesday, February 16, 2005
We Need The Oil, Right? So What’s the Problem?
The Earlier Cheney on Our Soldiers
In August 1992, Dick Cheney, then-Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney under a very different President Bush, was asked to explain why US tanks did not roll into Baghdad and depose Saddam Hussein during the Gulf War. Cheney said:
“I don’t think you could have done that without significant casualties. And the question in my mind is how many additional casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not that damned many. And we’re not going to get bogged down in the problems of trying to take over and govern Iraq.”
Great article by Ray Mcgovern We Need The Oil, Right? So What’s the Problem?
McGovern goes on to list the changes in the seven years that caused Cheney to change his priorities. Excellent article. Well worth the time it took to read. This administration and its vocal supporters say we didn't attack and continue to occupy Iraq because of the oil. Really?
