This video raises an interesting question. Are our leaders A: stupid, B: forgetful, C: Both? Cheney lays out a pretty compelling argument for why we should NOT invade Iraq, only to turn around 10 years later and lie cheat and steal our way into the very same conflict he says will be a quagmire. Could the massive amount of money he stood to gain from his Haliburton stocks have anything to do with it, is he going senile in his old age, could he have suddenly gone mad with power? Who knows? What we do know is that at the time this video was taken, Cheney thought going to war in Iraq was a bad idea, too bad he didn’t stick to that point of view.

Some highlights.

Mentions Iraq will be quagmire
Implies loosing american lives not worth it to get rid of Saddam
Lays out importance of having allies, and stresses that without allies mission will fail
Displays knowledge of the fact that Iraq is a very split and diverse place and without Saddam is most likely to break apart

All of this adds up to a surprisingly in depth knowledge of the kind of shit that can break loose if we say unilaterally invade Iraq…and yet he went on later to say the exact opposite. Mind boggling!?!