According to Plan
President George H.W. Bush’s Defense Secretary, Dick Cheney made the following statement concerning the war to liberate Kuwait.
“If we’d gone to Baghdad, we would have been all alone. There wouldn’t 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 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 eastern Iraq, the Iranians would like to claim, fought over for eight years.
“In the north, you have 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 that 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?
“And our judgment was, not very many. And I think we got it right.”
In 1994, Dick Cheney, insisted going into Baghdad would have been a bad idea, which indicates that the Bush regime knew exactly what would occur in Iraq. So far, everything has gone according to plan in the global war for oil, which the Cheney presently refers to as the war “against terrorism”.
“If we’d gone to Baghdad, we would have been all alone. There wouldn’t 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 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 eastern Iraq, the Iranians would like to claim, fought over for eight years.
“In the north, you have 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 that 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?
“And our judgment was, not very many. And I think we got it right.”
In 1994, Dick Cheney, insisted going into Baghdad would have been a bad idea, which indicates that the Bush regime knew exactly what would occur in Iraq. So far, everything has gone according to plan in the global war for oil, which the Cheney presently refers to as the war “against terrorism”.
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