woah he said that???
I am reading Al Frankens new book The Truth (with jokes) and i am loving every page of it. he is the only author i can stay up reading at 2am and not wanna go to bed. Well all i really wanted to report right now was the best quote i have read in a long time.
"I think that the proposition of going to Baghdad is also fallacious. I think if we were going to remove Saddam Hussein we would have had to go all the way to Baghdad, we would have to commit a lot of force because I do not believe he would wait in the Presidential Palace for us to arrive. 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."
this was not some quote from a liberal commentator....it was a quote from.....
Cheney at the Washington Institute's Soref Symposium, April 29, 1991.
Yes it is dated and relates to the Gulf war, but all the issues stated in there were still relevant when bush part II decided to invade iraq.
It seems everything big that happens in the world is foreshadowed by something. Sept 11 had that little document telling bush who was gunna do what and where. The iraqi invasion happened twice, both by presidents bearing the same name. It makes u a little ashamed. it really does.
PS...i hope to have big roomate news in the next few months...i dont wanna jinx anything now.
"I think that the proposition of going to Baghdad is also fallacious. I think if we were going to remove Saddam Hussein we would have had to go all the way to Baghdad, we would have to commit a lot of force because I do not believe he would wait in the Presidential Palace for us to arrive. 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."
this was not some quote from a liberal commentator....it was a quote from.....
Cheney at the Washington Institute's Soref Symposium, April 29, 1991.
Yes it is dated and relates to the Gulf war, but all the issues stated in there were still relevant when bush part II decided to invade iraq.
It seems everything big that happens in the world is foreshadowed by something. Sept 11 had that little document telling bush who was gunna do what and where. The iraqi invasion happened twice, both by presidents bearing the same name. It makes u a little ashamed. it really does.
PS...i hope to have big roomate news in the next few months...i dont wanna jinx anything now.