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To: Lane3 who wrote (148744)	11/26/2005 3:19:31 AM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793587

Thanks, that's what I was looking for. Am curious, what were your google parameters on this one? I'm pretty adept at finding things, but didn't see this one. Looks like my guess was right, however, on the date we might find it... I'm going to keep that link, and hope everyone reads the Russert-Cheney interview of 2 3/4 years ago. In some ways, we can see where things started to go down even then....some of the same "questioning" was used then by Russert, and some of the answers become more clear from Cheney...And questions as well. [[[[ And as an aside...Have been researching John Brown, the Republican anti-slavery man who was sent to the gallows for his efforts. I didn't really know much about him before, but as I read various of his letters to his family and others, I wondered what he would say about freeing the Iraqi's from their slavery from Saddam, and the Afgans' from the Taliban.... law.umkc.edu . ]]]]] Some interesting notes from the link you posted...(and again, thank you. Sincerely.) The notes are random...not in order, but just of interest to me. It does appear that it was the Iraqi's as a whole group who fought the fall of Saddam, but the terrorists and the Baathist Sunni's..... Cheney said, (actually at least 3 or 4 times mentioned liberators): Now, I can’t say with certainty that there will be no battle for Baghdad. We have to be prepared for that possibility. But, again, I don’t want to convey to the American people the idea that this is a cost-free operation. Nobody can say that. I do think there’s no doubt about the outcome. There’s no question about who is going to prevail if there is military action. And there’s no question but what it is going to be cheaper and less costly to do it now than it will be to wait a year or two years or three years until he’s developed even more deadly weapons, perhaps nuclear weapons. And the consequences then of having to deal with him would be far more costly than will be the circumstances today. Delay does not help.<<<<<<<<<<< >>>>>>>>>MR. RUSSERT: We have had 50,000 troops in Kosovo for several years, a country of just five million people. This is a country of 23 million people. It will take a lot in order to secure it<<<<<<<<< >>>>> MR. RUSSERT: If your analysis is not correct, and we’re not treated as liberators, but as conquerors, and the Iraqis begin to resist, particularly in Baghdad, do you think the American people are prepared for a long, costly, and bloody battle with significant American casualties? VICE PRES. CHENEY: Well, I don’t think it’s likely to unfold that way, Tim, because I really do believe that we will be greeted as liberators. I’ve talked with a lot of Iraqis in the last several months myself, had them to the White House. The president and I have met with them, various groups and individuals, people who have devoted their lives from the outside to trying to change things inside Iraq. And like Kanan Makiya who’s a professor at Brandeis, but an Iraqi, he’s written great books about the subject, knows the country intimately, and is a part of the democratic opposition and resistance. The read we get on the people of Iraq is there is no question but what they want to the get rid of Saddam Hussein and they will welcome as liberators the United States when we come to do that.<<<<<