Dick Cheney says going into Iraq would be a quagmire....

This is just amazing.

Dick Cheney gave an interview with the American Interprise Institute on April 15, 1994, defending the US decision not to go into Baghdad in 1991 during the first Gulf War.

Here is what he had to say [I added the bold parts]:

"Because if we'd gone to Baghdad we would have been all alone. There
wouldn't have been anybody else with us. There 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, took down Saddam Hussein's
government, then what are you going to put in its place?

"That's a very volatile part of the world, and if you take down the central
government of Iraq, you could very easily end up seeing pieces of Iraq fly off:
part of it, the Syrians would like to have to the west, part of it - eastern
Iraq - the Iranians would like to claim, they fought over it for eight years.

"In the north you've got the Kurds, and if the Kurds spin loose and join
with the Kurds in Turkey, then you threaten the territorial integrity of
Turkey.

"It's a quagmire if you go that far and try to take over Iraq.

"The other thing was casualties. Everyone was impressed with the fact we
were able to do our job with as few casualties as we had. But for the 146
Americans killed in action, and for their families - it wasn't a cheap war.

"And the question for the president, in terms of whether or not we went on
to Baghdad, took additional casualties in an effort to get Saddam Hussein, was
how many additional dead Americans is Saddam worth?

"Our judgment was, not very many, and I think we got it right.”

So what happened to this guy? He became Vice President and completely....oh, what's the word?.....flip-flopped on Iraq. Everything that is happening in Iraq - that's wrong - was predicted by the man himself in 1994.

If only someone told the Vice President that he was right the first time.

Oh, by the way, here is a link to the YouTube video of the Cheney interview, in case you have your doubts, and here is a link to the extremely conservative Newsmax.com article that talks about it.