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Excerpt from interview between Dick Cheney and the BBC: Scarsdale, N.Y. on Feb. 16, 1992 -- Dick Cheney, then secretary of defense, told the BBC why we had not pressed on to Baghdad: ....... "If we'd gone to Baghdad and got rid of Saddam Hussein - assuming we could have found him - we'd have had to put a lot of forces in and run him to ground someplace. He would not have been easy to capture. Then you've got to put a new government in his place and then you're faced with the question of what kind of government are you going to establish in Iraq? Is it going to be a Kurdish government or a Shiite government or a Sunni government? How many forces are you going to have to leave there to keep it propped up, how many casualties are you going to take through the course of this operation?"

Posted by anonymous on Sep 23, 2008

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