O’Reilly asks Cheney the perennial question
by digby
From Think Progress I find that Dick Cheney is thinks people are a lot dumber than they are. He was on O’Reilly last night who asked him about Iraq.
O’Reilly said, “they finger pointed you and Bush and I don’t want to do that,” O’Reilly said, “But we spent a $1 trillion on this with a lot of pain and suffering on the American military. What did we get out of it? Beside Saddam being out of there?”
While Cheney meandered for a few minutes, he finally settled on the main prize: an Iraq without weapons of mass destruction:
O’REiLLY: But what — right now, what do we — what do we get of Iraq for all of that blood and treasure? What do we get out of it?
CHENEY: What we gain and my concern was then and it remains today is that the biggest threat we face is the possibility of terrorist groups like al Qaeda equipped with weapons of mass destruction, with nukes, bugs or gas. That was the threat after 9/11 and when we took down Saddam Hussein we eliminated Iraq as a potential source of that.
Since Iraq didn’t have any weapons of mass destruction maybe we could have saved ourselves some money and eliminated a cheaper “potential source of WMD” that didn’t have any. Like “invading” Trinidad or something.
I’m frankly shocked that Cheney hasn’t been able to develop a better line about this by now. But then, really, what can he say? There is no good reason. We went crazy. And everyone knows it.
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