07-29-2008, 09:52 AM
Fistor Wrote:ratrad Wrote:Hey Fistor. How many Americans died on 9/11?
3,000. Why?
Oh, I was just curious since there has been 4,124 US soldiers killed and numerous more injured. So, I was wondering at what cost is this still beneficial.
Hey! Remember this?
"And the question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very damned many. So I think we got it right, both when we decided to expel him from Kuwait, but also when the president made the decision that we'd achieved our objectives and we were not going to go get bogged down in the problems of trying to take over and govern Iraq. All of a sudden you've got a battle you're fighting in a major built-up city, a lot of civilians are around, significant limitations on our ability to use our most effective technologies and techniques. Once we had rounded him up and gotten rid of his government, then the question is what do you put in its place? You know, you then have accepted the responsibility for governing Iraq."
-Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney 1992