Lawson for Congress

I just watched this utterly shocking interview with Dick Cheney from 1994. In 1994, Dick Cheney asked the question, “How many additional dead Americans is Saddam’s life worth?” His answer at the time was “Not very many.”

I wonder what caused such a drastic change of heart, in light of his specific predictions about the quagmire (his own word) resulting from toppling Saddam’s regime?

Why did we invade Iraq? Was it really WMD? Some claim they all disappeared to Syria, but we’ve not found them in Iraq. Was it 9/11? But Saddam Hussein wasn’t involved in 9/11, according to President Bush:

Regardless of why we invaded, we didn’t do it through a Constitutionally-required congressional Declaration of War. More importantly, having addressed the WMD issue and with Saddam now executed, why are we still there? Perhaps you’d like to hear Richard Holbrooke’s perspective, as interviewed on the Charlie Rose show:

http://www.charlierose.com/shows/2007/07/31/2/a-conversation-with-richard-holbrooke

Finally, there is an alternative perspective (thanks to dry British wit):

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