"CHENEY: I don't, Tim. It was–and it's been talked about since then. But the
fact of the matter is, the only way you could have done that would be to go to
Baghdad and occupy Iraq. If we'd done that, the U.S. would have been all alone.
We would not have had the support of the coalition, especially of the Arab
nations that fought alongside us in Kuwait. None of them ever set foot inside
Iraq. Conversations I had with leaders in the region afterwards -- they all
supported the decision that was made not to go to Baghdad. They were concerned
that we not get into a position where we shifted instead of being the leader of
an international coalition to roll back Iraqi aggression to one in which we were
an imperialist power, willy-nilly moving into capitals in that part of the world
taking down governments. So I think we got it right, so suppose it's one of
those things that'll be debated for some time. But I thought the decision was
sound at the time, and I do today. [Meet the Press, 8/27/00]"
First of all I want to be clear that there is the possibility that this information is being leaked to the press, or rather the press is being led, by someone close to the vice president. If the statements are true, and that is how he honestly felt when he made the statements, maybe this really is Bush's war. Have you ever had a friend, that wanted to do something stupid - and you couldn't talk them out of it. In the end you work with your friend and help them, knowing you can't stop it, you hope you can limit the damage. Could it be that Cheney was in the position that he couldn't stop the war, so he got involved to attempt to make the war go right. Of course this goes against the image of Cheney as the hawk in the administration.
The only thing we know about Cheney, is that we don't know that much about Cheney.
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