Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Friday, January 21, 2005
Dick Cheney and the "definition of quagmire"
“Once you’ve got Baghdad, it’s not clear what you do with it. It’s not clear what kind of government you would put in place of the one that’s currently there.... How much credibility is that government going to have if it’s set up by the United States military when it’s there?.... I think to have American military forces engaged in a civil war inside Iraq would fit the definition of quagmire, and we have absolutely no desire to get bogged down in that fashion.”
Cheney (pictured above with the CEO of Catholic Church, Inc.) was Secretary of Defense (sic) when he said this on April 29, 1991… explaining why Operation Desert Storm did not expand into taking over Iraq.
In a related story, the World Socialist website had this to report from amidst the paranoid security of Inauguration Day:
“In the course of Bush’s speech, several demonstrators from the Code Pink group who managed to get near the platform raised a banner reading ‘Bring the Troops Home’ and began to chant. Police rushed in to tear the banner down and drag them away. Members of the predominantly Republican crowd cheered the police action, chanting ‘USA, USA.’”
(http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jan2005/wash-j21.shtml)
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