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SOURCE: HNN Staff (8-17-07)

A 1994 interview with Dick Cheney featured on YouTube this week has drawn more than half a million hits. In the interview Cheney defends the first Bush administration's decision to allow Saddam Hussein to remain in power rather than remove him. Cheney says that going to Baghdad would have plunged the United States into a"quagmire" with parts of Iraq flying off.

The interview is circulating by email and was excerpted on Jon Stewart's The Daily Show.

Source: 
HNN Staff
Source URL: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BEsZMvrq-I
Date: 
8-17-07

Cheney's 1994 Interview

Submitted by jhmccsr on Sat, 2007-08-18 12:25.
He was reiterating the position of Bush 41 and Brent Scowcroft, as laid out in their 1998 book, "A World Transformed." Our tragedy is that the son failed to listen to the father, for whatever reasons we must determine.