“We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators,” Dick Cheney on NBC’s Meet the Press on March 16, 2003, three days prior to the U.S. invasion of Iraq that he and George W. Bush ordered.
Not only is Cheney criminally responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths in Iraq, his vision of what Iraq would look like after the invasion competes for the most flawed and incompetent assessment by any political leader ever.
Again, on NBC that day (March 16, 2003) Cheney predicted that the invasion would lead to a new level of national unity in Iraq.
“If you look at the opposition, they’ve come together, I think, very effectively, with representatives from Shia, Sunni and Kurdish elements in the population. They understand the importance of preserving and building on an Iraqi national identity. They don’t like to have the U.S., for example, come in and insist on dealing with people sort of on a hyphenated basis — the Iraqi-Shia, Iraqi-Sunni — but rather to focus on Iraq as a nation and all that it can accomplish as a nation, and we try to be sensitive to those concerns. I think the prospects of being able to achieve this kind of success, if you will, from a political standpoint, are probably better than they would be for virtually any other country and under similar circumstances in that part of the world.”
In 2002 when Cheney was busy selling the coming invasion he explained its urgency: “Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us.”
Everything Dick Cheney said was a lie. Hundreds of thousands died and Iraq was shredded as a country. Tens of thousands of US soldiers and marines had life changing injuries and more than 5,000 died in Iraq.
Dick Cheney is a prime example of the criminal character of capitalism. He is still getting ever richer selling books, making speeches and living off of his mega fortune as the chairman of Halliburton Corporation. Cheney got rich while working people in Iraq and the United States lost their lives.
