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Dick Cheney’s Anti-War Stance

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It may surprise you, but Dick Cheney was a staunch anti-war in Iraq advocate…

…or was, in 1994: Via politicstv.com:

I think what frustrated me most about the arguments for going into Iraq was that the leaders knew that it’d be a huge mistake. It wasn’t that they miscalculated. Instead, Dick Cheney saw reality pretty clearly and the neo-conservative ideology overpowered that reality. They knew what would happen, but they did it anyway.

That’s sort of how I feel about other catastrophes as well. The Administration knew how bad the levees were in Katrina but still decided to do nothing, anyway. Governments across the board know how much our infrastructure needs repair, but they still take the “anti-tax,” ideology anyway. Why? Because ideology overpowers the reality they already see clearly. Dick Cheney knew that we’d have to occupy Iraq and that would destabilize the entire region, but they went ahead with it anyway. Let’s not think that these guys don’t know what they’re doing.

These guys choose to go ahead with bad policies. 

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    • Both of ‘Bizarro’ videos are from 1994! Who would of thought us lefties would be wistful for the moderate GOP of the “Contract on America” days? This was before the Reagan fetish/deification, too. Perhaps we need to resurect the ex-pres in the form of Zombie Reagan to reel the conservatives back towards reality?

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      Yikes!

  2. The continuing mystery: Why did we go to war with Iraq?

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    The more history we learn the more obvious it is that the Bush Administration did not care whether this was the wrong or right thing to do. They just wanted to put their thumb on the scale so that it was decided that we would go to war.

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    Why, though?

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    Since their domestic agenda is so attuned to partisan gain and so little attuned to policy outcomes, that leaves the frightening prospect that this whole nightmare was invented to win elections. One recoils from that conclusion, but one also recoils from the thought that they stacked the Justice Department and edited scientific reports.

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    What if this was the case? What if Democrats could convince the electorate of this?

    • …GWBush wanted to get rid of Saddam is that Saddam tried to kill his daddy in 1992 (or was it ’93?) after the end of Gulf War I.  Why do I say that?  Easy: GWBush said it himself at least twice in public, and, apparently, a number of times in private.

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      Why did Cheney or any of the others want to get rid of Saddam?  Gawd only knows, but I really do believe that it has something to do with money…er…Halliburton.  The US govt’s use of “contractors” (substitute “mercenaries”) in this war is horrendous.

    • It is my sincere and deep hope that they calculated that in the new century Iraq would be like the last century’s Germany, a land that once defeated could be occupied by ally forces to ensure the protection of its GDP base (oil among others) from other enemy states specifically to build a central base of operations in the Middle East to secure Middle Eastern oil and defend it from Russian and Chinese forces.

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      Even though I would still oppose a war for this reason as well, it is my sincere hope that the administration gambled on a realpolitk equation and used 9/11 to justify it to the American people. 

  5. They choose to go ahead with bad policies because they don’t know the people who have to pay the price for their mistakes. It’s not them or their kids fighting in Iraq; it’s not their friends or family who suffered after the Katrina fiasco. 

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