The Administration "Re-wronging" history
Dick Cheney- November, 2005: "The president and I cannot
prevent certain politicians from losing their memory, or their
backbone -- but we're not going to sit by and let them rewrite
history..."
Good point.
DoD Transcript excerpt of Sec. Rumsfeld and Gen. Myers on
Tuesday, February 10, 2004.
Q: Mr. Secretary, you said in your opening remarks, sir -- you
described it as two paths that nations can take, and you noted
that Saddam Hussein, had he opened up his country to the U.N.
resolutions, there would have been no war.
Rumsfeld: Mm-hmm.
Q: And it intrigues me because about a year ago you said the
same thing, he had the choice between war and peace and he had
chosen war. If I follow your thought correctly -- and I'm sure
you'll tell me if I'm not -- (Laughter.) -- in his case, if he
would have opened up the country, let the U.N. come in, the
United States come in, whoever, to search for the weapons of
mass destruction, he would have still been in power today,
correct? Okay. And that would be an acceptable position -- or
you chose the word of the "position" -- vis-