[Vision2020] An illogical comparison.

[david sarff]

I’d say that Tony’s logic would see this as a bucket half full:

http://homepages.igrin.co.nz/moerewa/Pages/sinking%20dozer.jpg




>Tom you repeatedly post Dick Cheney's statement regarding Iraq made at the
>time of our liberation of Kuwait without the all important context.  To
>suggest that because something may have been unadvisable at one time  does
>not necessarily mean it would continue to be inadvisable 15 years later.
>Circumstances and situations change Tom.  Our relationships with other 
>world
>leaders are not cast in concrete, but change with geopolitical
>circumstances.  You surely realize this, so why the attempt to equate
>Cheney's statement regarding Iraq in '91 with our invasion of '05?
>
>Please try to employ a modicum of fairness in your observations for the
>benefit of the less informed who might place undue stock in illogical
>suggestions.
>
>Have a pleasant New Year.          -T
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
>To: "Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 1:53 PM
>Subject: [Vision2020] The Human Toll
>
>
> > "The notion that we ought to now go to Baghdad and somehow take control 
>of
> > the country strikes me as an extremely serious one in terms of what we'd
> > have to do once we got there. You'd probably have to put some new
> > government
> > in place. It's not clear what kind of government that would be, how long
> > you'd have to stay. For the U.S. to get involved militarily in 
>determining
> > the outcome of the struggle over who's going to govern in Iraq strikes 
>me
> > as
> > a classic definition of a quagmire."
> >
> > - Dick Cheney, 1991
> > http://www.tomandrodna.com/Stuff/Cheney_Quagmire.mp3
> >
> > ------
> >
> >>From the January 1, 2007 edition of the Army Times -
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------
> >

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