A recently-unearthed video from 1992 shows Vice President Dick Cheney predicting the mess that occupying Iraq would create:
If you get into the business of committing U.S. forces on the ground in Iraq, to occupy the place, my guess is I’d probably still have people there today instead of having been able to bring them home”¦The bottom line question for me was: How many additional American lives is Saddam Hussein worth? The answer: not very damn many.
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