Who said the following back in 1991 when asked why American troops didn’t invade Iraq and topple the government?

They’d get mired down inside Iraq in a conflict that’s been raging for generations in the interest of trying to dictate who’s going to govern in Iraq. That is not something that we are prepared to see American forces do.

For the US to get involved militarily in determining the outcome of the struggle over who’s going to govern in Iraq strikes me as the classic definition of a quagmire.

The answer…

Dick Cheney.

• The urge to surge
• I bet they know who won every American Idol
• A Path Out of Iraq
• “Reasons” to vote for Baxley
• John Stossel interviews Michael Moore

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