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05/21/09	Dick Cheney				Waterboarding is Torture, Ineffective & Should be Prosecuted

	"I was and remain a strong proponent of our enhanced interrogation program." [May, 2009 speech to American Enterprise Institute]
05/21/09	Dick Cheney				Torture

	"To completely rule out enhanced interrogation methods in the future is unwise in the extreme. It is recklessness cloaked in righteousness, and would make the American people less safe." [May 2009 speech to AEI]
01/27/07	Dick Cheney				The 2003 Iraq War was Unjustified and Fought on False Pretenses

	"The biggest problem we face right now is the danger than the United States will validate the terrorist's strategy... that says the Americans will not stay to complete the task ...that we don't have the stomach for the fight. That's the biggest threat." [CNN Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer. 2007]
01/27/07	Dick Cheney				The 2003 Iraq War was Unjustified and Fought on False Pretenses

	"Bottom line is that we've had enormous successes [on Iraq] and we will continue to have enormous successes". [CNN Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, 2007]
01/27/07	Dick Cheney				The 2003 Iraq War was Unjustified and Fought on False Pretenses

	"Defeat is not an answer. We can, in fact, prevail here [on Iraq] and we need to prevail. And the consequences of not doing so are enormous". [CNN Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, 2007]
01/27/07	John McCain	Dick Cheney			The 2003 Iraq War was Unjustified and Fought on False Pretenses

	John McCain said,"The president listens too much to the vice president. Of course, the president bears the ultimate responsibility, but he's been very badly served by both the vice president and, most of all, the secretary of Defense." Dick Cheney's response: "So?" [CNN Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer]
01/14/07	Dick Cheney				The 2003 Iraq War was Unjustified and Fought on False Pretenses

	"This is an existential conflict. It is the kind of conflict that's going to drive our policy and our government for the next 20 or 30 or 40 years. We have to prevail and we have to have the stomach for the fight long term". [On Iraq War, 2007]
01/20/06	Dick Cheney				The 2003 Iraq War was Unjustified and Fought on False Pretenses

	"I think we've had a lot of good news out of Iraq over the course of the last year. It's hard sometimes to see through that, given the continued level of violence, obviously". [Fox News, Sean Hannity interview]
05/30/05	Dick Cheney				The 2003 Iraq War was Unjustified and Fought on False Pretenses

	"I'm absolutely convinced we did the right thing in Iraq". [CNN Larry King Interview, 2005]
05/30/05	Dick Cheney				The 2003 Iraq War was Unjustified and Fought on False Pretenses

	"I think we may well have some kind of presence there [Iraq] over a period of time. But I think the level of activity that we see today, from a military standpoint, I think will clearly decline. I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency". [CNN Larry King Interview, 2005]
05/30/05	Dick Cheney				The 2003 Iraq War was Unjustified and Fought on False Pretenses

	"America will be safer in the long run when Iraq and Afghanistan as well are no longer safe havens for terrorists or places where people can gather and plan and organize attacks against the United States". [CNN Larry King Interview, 2005]
10/07/04	Dick Cheney				The 2003 Iraq War was Unjustified and Fought on False Pretenses

	"The notion we could have waited, not done anything, and sooner or later Saddam would not be on the scene doesn't make any sense". [Oct 2004 Town Hall Meeting]
10/05/04	Dick Cheney				2001 Afghanistan War

	We've made enormous progress in Afghanistan, in exactly the right direction. [Three years after 9/11]
10/05/04	Dick Cheney				The 2003 Iraq War was Unjustified and Fought on False Pretenses

	"What we did in Iraq was exactly the right thing to do. If I had it to recommend all over again, I would recommend exactly the same course of action." [at 2004 VP Debate].
08/26/02	Dick Cheney		Spoken		The 2003 Iraq War was Unjustified and Fought on False Pretenses & 2003 Iraq War
	In fact, former CIA Director George Tenet later recalled, Cheney's assertions went well beyond his agency's assessments at the time. Another CIA official, referring to the same speech, told journalis...
	"Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us."
08/27/00	Dick Cheney				Wars & Conflicts

	"They were concerned that we not get into a position... in which we were an imperialist power willy-nilly moving into capitals in that part of the world taking down governments." [Referring to First Iraq War]
08/14/92	Dick Cheney				Wars & Conflicts

	"And the question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very damned many." [Referring to First Iraq War]
08/14/92	Dick Cheney				Wars & Conflicts

	"I would guess if we had gone in there, I would still have forces in Baghdad today, we’d be running the country. We would not have been able to get everybody out and bring everybody home." [Referring to the First Iraq War]
08/14/92	Dick Cheney				Wars & Conflicts

	"Once we had rounded him up [Saddam Hussein] and gotten rid of his government, then the question is what do you put in its place? You know, you then have accepted the responsibility for governing Iraq." [Referring to First Iraq War]
08/14/92	Dick Cheney				Wars & Conflicts

	"So I think we got it right...when the President made the decision that we’d achieved our objectives and we were not going to go get bogged down in the problems of trying to take over and govern Iraq." [Referring to First Gulf War]
04/29/91	Dick Cheney				Wars & Conflicts

	"It would have been a mistake for us to get bogged down in the quagmire inside Iraq". [Referring to First Iraq War]

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