Dick Cheney Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.

  Dick Cheney

  War, Stupid, Thinking

  www.foxnews.com. June 20, 2005.

• My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. . . . I think it will go relatively quickly, . . . [in] weeks rather than months.

  Dick Cheney

  War, Thinking, Iraq

• The question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very damned many.

  Dick Cheney

  Peace, War, Mind

  "Cheney in Charge". www.washingtonpost.com. October 24, 2006.

• Oil remains fundamentally a government business. While many regions of the world offer great oil opportunities, the Middle East with two-thirds of the world's oil and the lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies, even though companies are anxious for greater access there, progress continues to be slow.

  Dick Cheney

  Lying, War, Opportunity

  "Libya: another neocon war" by David Swanson, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2011.

• ...And while everybody was tremendously impressed with the low cost of the conflict, for the 146 Americans who were killed in action and for their families, it wasn't a cheap war. And the question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very damned many.

  Dick Cheney

  Military, War, Mind

• Two days ahead of schedule, the world witnessed the arrival of a free and sovereign Iraq.

  Dick Cheney

  War, Two, Iraq

  "U.S. Preparing to Handover Former Iraqi Dictator Saddam Hussein". CNN live with Kyra Phillips, edition.cnn.com. June 28, 2004.

• If we're successful in Iraq ... we will have struck a major blow right at the heart of the base, if you will, the geographic base of the terrorists who have had us under assault now for many years, but most especially on 9/11.

  Dick Cheney

  War, Heart, Successful

  "Meet the Press" with Mr. Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. September 7, 2003.

• I do not believe the President requires any additional authorization from the Congress before committing US forces to achieve our objectives in the Gulf.

  Dick Cheney

  War, Believe, President

• It's very important to go back and keep in mind the distinction between handling these events as criminal acts, which was the way we did before 9/11, and then looking at 9/11 and saying, 'This is not a criminal act,' not when you destroy 16 acres of Manhattan, kill 3,000 Americans, blow a big hole in the Pentagon. That's an act of war.

  Dick Cheney

  War, Blow, Mind

  "Panel on Implications of Sen.Bayh's Announcement He Won't Run for Re-election". "Special Report With Bret Baier", www.foxnews.com. February 15, 2010.

• From our perspective, trying to deal with this continuing campaign of terror, if you will, the war on terror that we're engaged in, this is a continuing enterprise. The people that were involved in some of those activities before 9/11 are still out there.

  Dick Cheney

  War, Perspective, People

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. September 14, 2003.

• We're fighting a war on terror because the enemy attacked us first, and hit us hard. ... Al Qaeda's leadership has said they have the right to kill four million Americans,... For nearly six years now, the United States has been able to defeat their attempts to attack us here at home. Nobody can guarantee that we won't be hit again.

  Dick Cheney

  War, Home, Fighting

  Vice President's Remarks at the United States Military Academy Commencement, West Point, New York, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. May 26, 2007.

• I think the key that happened on 9/11 is we went from considering terrorist attacks as a law enforcement problem to considering terrorist attacks, especially on the scale we have on 9/11, as being an act of war.

  Dick Cheney

  War, Thinking, Keys

  "Former Vice President Dick Cheney on 'Hannity'". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. December 9, 2009.

• Once we got hit by - on 9/11 and lost 3,000 people that day, we recognized, and it was one of the key decisions President Bush made, that this is not a law enforcement problem, it is a strategic threat to the United States. It's a war. And based on that, we then adopted a whole set of policies that flowed out of that proposition.

  Dick Cheney

  War, People, Decision

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• I think the record speaks for itself. These are two individuals who have been for the war when the headlines were good and against it when their poll ratings were bad.

  Dick Cheney

  War, Thinking, Two

  Dick Cheney during Vice-Presidential Debate at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, www.cnn.com. October 7, 2004.

• After 9/11 we were prepared to use military force. We were prepared to go after not only the terrorists, but those who sponsor terror and provide sanctuary and safe harbor for them. We were prepared to use our intelligence assets the way we would against an enemy that threatened the United States itself, to put in place, for example, things like the Terror Surveillance Program and to have a robust interrogation program on detainees. Those are the acts you take when you feel you're at war and that the very existence of the nation is threatened.

  Dick Cheney

  War, Military, Enemy

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• Another argument holds that opposing Saddam Hussein would cause even greater troubles in that part of the world, and interfere with the larger war against terror. I believe the opposite is true.

  Dick Cheney

  War, Believe, Opposites

  Address to the Veterans of Foreign Wars 103rd National Convention, delivered 26 August 2002, Nashville, Tennessee

• I don’t think that [the war in Iraq] damaged our reputation around the world.

  Dick Cheney

  War, Thinking, Iraq

• Because if we make the wrong choice, then the danger is that we'll get hit again, that we'll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States, and that we'll fall back into the pre-9/11 mind set if you will, that in fact these terrorist attacks are just criminal acts, and that we're not really at war. I think that would be a terrible mistake for us.

  Dick Cheney

  War, Mistake, Fall

  Dick Cheney's speech at a Town Hall Meeting in Des Moines, Iowa, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. September 7, 2004.

• After 9/11, it became clear that we [the United States] had to do several things to have a successful strategy to win the global war on terror, specifically that we had to go after the terrorists wherever we might find them, that we also had to go after state sponsors of terror, those who might provide sanctuary or safe harbor for terror.

  Dick Cheney

  War, Successful, Winning

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• It's awfully hard to convey a sense of credibility to allies when you [the Congress] voted for the war and then you declared: Wrong war, wrong place, wrong time.

  Dick Cheney

  War, Allies, Congress

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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