“If you take down the central gov’t…you could… see… pieces of Iraq fly off”- Dick Cheney 1994
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If you take down the central govt
you could
see
pieces of Iraq fly off- Dick Cheney 1994
By contributors | Jun. 14, 2014
Dick Cheney on why the US shouldnt invade Iraq (1994):
Because if we had gone to Baghdad we would have been all alone. There wouldnt have been anybody else with us. It would have been a U.S. occupation of Iraq. None of the Arab forces that were willing to fight with us in Kuwait were willing to invade Iraq. Once you got to Iraq and took it over and took down Saddam Husseins government, then what are you going to put in its place? Thats a very volatile part of the world. And if you take down the central government in Iraq, you could easily end up seeing pieces of Iraq fly off. Part of it the Syrians would like to have, the west. Part of eastern Iraq the Iranians would like to claim. Fought over for eight years. In the north, youve got the Kurds. And if the Kurds spin loose and join with Kurds in Turkey, then you threaten the territorial integrity of Turkey. Its a quagmire if you go that far and try to take over Iraq.
C-Span: 1994 Clip of a C-SPAN Interview with Dick Cheney