Membranophonist’s Ramblings

After reading an an Oliver Willis post, I wanted to find the transcript of Dick Cheney’s 1992 comments to the Discovery Institute. Based on a search of their archive for the terms “Saddam” and “Cheney”, it looks like their online archive only goes back to about 1995 or so. Switching to Google, I found this:

[And] you’re going to take a lot more American casualties if you’re gonna go muck around in Iraq for weeks on end trying to run Saddam Hussein to ground and capture Baghdad and so forth and I don’t think it would have been worth it.

Then Secretary of Defense Richard Cheney in an interview with Frontline

Here’s a snippet that really makes you wonder what changed Mr. Cheney’s definition of credibility so dramatically:

…we felt we had to maintain credibility and credibility meant we never said anything we couldn’t deliver on, we didn’t make promises we couldn’t keep. We never set out to mislead anybody and at the heart of that was to say to the American people, this is what we’re going to do and this is why we are going to do it.

Compare that to the “evolution” of the reasons the current administration has given for invading Iraq.

Update: Another Oliver Willis reader posted a link to a full text transcript of Cheney’s Discovery Institute address.