Coughing after "quaqmire"

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"Once you remove Hussein's government what are you gonna put in its place?....[it would have been] a quaqmire...for the 146 Americans killed in action it wasn't a cheap war...how many more dead Americans was Saddam Hussein worth?" This 1994 clip of Dick Cheney explaining the reasons for not invading Iraq during the '91 Gulf War began circulating last Sunday. What got me was the hilarious cough from the interviewer right after Cheney says "quaqmire." Anyone who's ever performed or given a lecture knows from coughs. They're involuntary, a kind of instant vox populi.

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on August 15, 2007 at 5:21 AM

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vansmith says ...

this time it was about knocking over a bees nest and swatting at the sworm in an attempt to look busy after 9/11 and also to make a shit load of money...fighting them over there instead of here was the mantra i suppose and we cant knock the results so far...knock wood...

Posted by vansmith at August 15, 2007 6:04 AM

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jghoward says ...

I suppose his opinion on whether to invade Iraq changed after he became involved with Halliburton?

Posted by jghoward at August 15, 2007 6:22 AM

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Josh Massey says ...

Careful Jeff, or you're going to be accused of regurgitating talking points.

... Oh right, only conservatives can do that.

Posted by Josh Massey at August 15, 2007 7:35 AM

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AH says ...

This is not a criticism, just a fact. The only difference between the first and the second Iraq wars is who the president was.

Posted by AH at August 15, 2007 8:38 AM

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christian says ...

this clip has been around a looooong time. pre-iraq war in fact. where was the liberal media then? i actually heard conservative kabc host doug mcintyre play this clip today -- the only kabc rightie with a brain.

happy hump day!

Posted by christian at August 15, 2007 8:44 AM

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Walter Sobchak says ...

This clip was hidden by the Right Wing Conspiracy Machine, which is part of the Haliburton Profit Machine, which is in cahoots with the White House Spin Machine, which everyone knows is part of the Republican Death Machine, which of course is aided by the Right Wing Talk Radio Hate Machine.

Posted by Walter Sobchak at August 15, 2007 9:25 AM

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Larry says ...

I was waiting for you to put up this clip. Cheney, like many (me, for instance), realized he was wrong back then and changed his mind. It shows, as opposed to many of his critics, he's open to new ideas.

Posted by Larry at August 15, 2007 9:47 AM

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christian says ...

ah yes. open to the new idea of invading a country based on lies and creating generations of terorists while depleting our resources and global goodwill for their corporatist agenda.

capital new idea that!

Posted by christian at August 15, 2007 10:02 AM

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Walter Sobchak says ...

No no no, christian...... the Corporatist Agenda Machine.....
come on, get it right!

Posted by Walter Sobchak at August 15, 2007 10:09 AM

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christian says ...

i like to call it simply The Right Wing Machine --it only has one button labelled SPIN...

Posted by christian at August 15, 2007 10:14 AM

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messiahcomplexio says ...

I was against invading iraq before I was for it.

Posted by messiahcomplexio at August 15, 2007 11:05 AM

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jimjonesiii says ...

walter sobchak ironies are really sad actually. he`s like a child who wanders into the middle of a movie and wants to know.
shut the fuck up, walter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by jimjonesiii at August 15, 2007 11:07 AM

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