Cheney is a smart guy. He keeps Bush in the front lines taking the insults and fumbling over his lines, but there should be no question who's running things.
In this interview broadcast on C-Span in 1994 Cheney lays out the scenario of what would happen if we took out Saddam Hussein. He predicted our current situation to the t.
There were no surprises in Iraq. Cheney knew exactly what he was getting us into and yet he did it anyway.
Another interesting thing that this interview brings up is the way that the internet is changing the political scene. In 1994 when Cheney recorded this video, he could generally count on the fact that the footage would be aired one time by a respectable network then forgotten long before it could ever come back to haunt him. Now days though, with U-tube and Digg quickly replacing CNN and Fox news, things have changed. Politicians beware. If you say something once you better be ready for the public to pull it out to use against you.
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