In an August 14, 1992, speech to the Discovery Institute in Seattle, Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney said, regarding the decision to pull out of Iraq without invading Baghdad or overthrowing Saddam: " 'I would guess if we had gone in there, I would still have forces in Baghdad today. We'd be running the country. […]
8/14/1992
Following a speech at the Discovery Institute in Seattle, Washington, on August 14, 1992, Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney defended not removing Saddam Hussein from power in Operation Desert Storm. He said: ” ‘…the question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very damned many. […]
8/14/1992
Following a speech at the Discovery Institute in Seattle, Washington, on August 14, 1992, Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney defended not removing Saddam Hussein from power in Operation Desert Storm. He said: ” ‘You probably would have had to run him to ground; I don’t think he would have surrendered and gone quietly to the […]
8/14/1992
Following a speech at the Discovery Institute in Seattle, Washington, on August 14, 1992, Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney defended not removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq in Operation Desert Storm. He said: ” ‘…we made the decision not to go on to Baghdad because that was never part of our objective. It wasn’t […]
8/14/1992
After a speech at the Discovery Institute in Seattle, Washington, on August 14, 1992, Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney was asked about his opinion on Saddam, who was still in power in Iraq. Cheney replied: ” ‘My own personal view continues to be one that he is not likely to survive as the leader of […]
8/14/1992
” ‘[Going to Baghdad] was never part of our objective, [Secretary of Defense Dick] Cheney said in an August [14] 1992 speech. ‘It wasn’t what the country signed up for. …Once we had rounded him up and gotten rid of [Saddam’s] government, then the question is what do you put in its place? You know, […]
7/21/1992
In his House of Representatives floor speech on July 21, 1992, Congressman Henry B. Gonzalez (D-TX) said: “An initial review of 73 cases in which [U.S.] licenses were granted by DOC or DOC/DOD [Department of Commerce/Department of Defense] from 1986-1989 [to Iraq] shows that licenses were granted for equipment with dual or not clearly stated […]
7/15/1992
“The number of fighter jets [kept on alert] under NORAD command was gradually phased down, from 750 in 1959, to 325 in 1976, to 200 in 1990, to 175 in 1997, to 14 in 2001. When the Cold War ended, Pentagon analysts recommended in [a report in July] 1992 that NORAD’s mission be phased out […]
7/15/1992
When asked about the amount of plastic explosives supplied by the CIA and transferred to the mujahedin by Pakistani intelligence with CIA and Saudi support, a U.S. official claimed, in an interview in July 1992, ” ‘We could have probably blown up half of New York with the explosives that the Paks supplied.’ ” [The […]
6/15/1992
“A National Intelligence Estimate was actually published in [June] 1992 with the title ‘Saddam Husayn: Likely to Hang On.’ “ [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Richard N. Haass, War of Necessity, War of Choice, Page 149 […]