Dick Cheney Quotes
They’re going to welcome us. It’ll be like the American Army going through the streets of Paris.
Richard B. Cheney, Vice President of the United States (Republican), U. S. Congressman (Republican, WY), White House Chief of Staff, U. S. Secretary of Defense, Prediction about the Iraq war made to Congressional leader Dick Armey, Quoted in New York Times Book Review, November 4, 2007
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The Vice President was one of the architects of and advocates for the Iraq War. To garner public support he (and the others supporting the war) claimed that Iraq had developed weapons of mass destruction and made a serious of predictions about the war. He was wrong on all counts. There were no WMDs, none were even being developed, and we needed hundreds of thousands of troops for a decade as we were not greeted as liberators but the vast majority of our casualties and deaths in Iraq came after the invasion was successful and the population showed very hostile to U. S. occupation and our governing policies.
Thompson’s son was serving with U. S. forces in the Iraq War at the time.
Richard Bruce Cheney is an American politician and businessman who served as the 46th vice president of the United States from 2001 to 2009 under George W. Bush. He has been cited as the most powerful vice president in American history. He is also one of the most unpopular American politicians, holding an approval rating of just 13% upon leaving office. Cheney has been the oldest living former U.S. vice president since 2021, following the death of Walter Mondale.
