Below, the latest gotcha’ video making the rounds on the Internets.

People have quoted Cheney saying similar things in the 1990s, but it’s pretty striking to see it in video.

I suppose the standard war booster response to this is, “September 11 changed everything.” Well, it certainly changed a lot. But it didn’t change the situation inside of Iraq, now did it? It didn’t ease the ethnic tensions there. It didn’t make a post-Saddam Iraq any easier to manage. It didn’t make us suddenly capable of the “nation building” Bush and Cheney as candidates sensibly advised we steer clear of. September 11 didn’t make us capable of avoiding any of the dire predictions offered up by Dick Cheney, 1994. What exactly did change between 1994 and 2003 that made Cheney change his mind about Iraq’s inevitable quagmirish characteristics?

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