Dick Cheney, making-sense in 1994: "A U.S. Occupation of Iraq would be a Quagmire!" and "How many dead Americans is Saddam worth? Not very many!"

UPDATE - Link to video of Darth Cheney in 1994, via Americablog...

BUSTED! Published: August 12, 2007

...a now wildly popular video on YouTube that shows Dick Cheney explaining in 1994 that trying to take over Iraq would be a "bad idea" and lead to a "quagmire."

Dick Cheney, at the conservative
American Enterprise Institute,
April 15, 1994...

BACKGROUND: Cheney had helped direct the Gulf War for President George H.W. Bush. That effort was later criticized for not taking Baghdad and officials like Cheney had to explain why...

Here's the transcript:

Q: Do you think the US, or UN, should have moved into Baghdad (in 1991) ?

CHENEY, A: No... Because if we'd gone to Baghdad we would have been all alone. There wouldn't have been anybody else with us.

There would have been a U.S. occupation of Iraq...

Once you got to Iraq and... took down Saddam Hussein's government, what are you going to put in its place?
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It's a quagmire if you go that far and try to take over Iraq.

(1991 Gulf War... W)e were able to do our job with... few casualties... But for the 146 Americans killed in action, and for their families -- it wasn't a cheap war. And the question for the president, in terms of whether or not we went on to Baghdad... was how many additional dead Americans is Saddam worth?

Our judgment was, not very many, and I think we got it right.