Cenk Uygur
@TheYoungTurks·6.5M subscribers·72.8K videos
If Only Dick Cheney Had Listened To This Iraq War Critic...
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June 18, 2014
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4:27Now Playing"In a remarkable video posted on YouTube, Dick Cheney says everything critical about Iraq which Democrats and liberals have been shouting for years.
The difference is that Mr. Cheney said it 13 years ago, in an interview with the American Enterprise Institute, on April 15, 1994. The footage is quite stunning. If you wrote a comedy sketch, and wanted to make the sitting vice president look even more duplicitous than he is, you couldn't have had him say it any differently.
Indeed, he looks almost prescient in his analysis of Iraq, except that what he was saying was pretty basic and obvious, even at the time. That he and the George Bush administration overlooked the basic and obvious is bad enough. That they ignored what Dick Cheney himself said is repugnant. In a bizarre, Twilight Zone/hilarious/sick and twisted way. "* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
*Read more here from Robert J. Elisberg / The Huffington Post:
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