Not Your Sweetie

Dick Cheney: End the War with Iraq (1991)



Defense Secretary Dick Cheney defends the decision to end the war. "If you're going
to go in and try to topple Saddam Hussein," Cheney said, "you have to go to
Baghdad. Once you've got Baghdad, it's not clear what you do with it. It's not clear
what kind of government you would put in place of the one that's currently there now.
Is it going to be a Shia regime, a Sunni regime or a Kurdish regime? Or one that tilts
toward the Baathists, or one that tilts toward the Islamic fundamentalists? How much
credibility is that government going to have if it's set up by the United States military
when it's there? How long does the United States military have to stay to protect the
people that sign on for that government, and what happens to it once we leave?"