Dick Cheney

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1941 age 0

   Born

2. 2004 age 63

   CreditFahrenheit 9/11

3. 2025 age 84

   Died

• HWHarvey Weinstein1 title
• BWBob Weinstein1 title
• BSBritney Spears1 title
• GBGeorge W. Bush1 title
• AGAl Gore1 title
• MMMichael Moore1 title
• JGJeff Gibbs1 title
• DRDonald Rumsfeld1 title
• CRCondoleezza Rice1 title
• SWStevie Wonder1 title

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  Photo:Karen Ballard, White House.Public domain
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  Photo:Image from the U.S. Air Force website, but likely made by office of the President.Public domain

• Principle is okay up to a certain point, but principle doesn't do any good if you lose.

  Dick Cheney, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Let us rid ourselves of the fiction that low oil prices are somehow good for the United States.

  Dick Cheney, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I think that the proposition of going to Baghdad is also fallacious. I think if we we're going to remove Saddam Hussein we would have had to go all the way to Baghdad, we would have to commit a lot of force because I do not believe he would wait in the Presidential Palace for us to arrive. I think we'd have had to hunt him down. And once we'd done that and we'd gotten rid of Saddam Hussein and his government, then we'd have had to put another government in its place. What kind of government? Should it be a Sunni government or Shi'i government or a Kurdish government or Ba'athist regime? Or maybe we want to bring in some of the Islamic fundamentalists? How long would we have had to stay in Baghdad to keep that government in place? What would happen to the government once U.S. forces withdrew? How many casualties should the United States accept in that effort to try to create clarity and stability in a situation that is inherently unstable? I think it is vitally important for a President

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• And the question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very damned many. So I think we got it right, both when we decided to expel him from Kuwait, but also when the president made the decision that we'd achieved our objectives and we were not going to go get bogged down in the problems of trying to take over and govern Iraq.... Once we had rounded him up and gotten rid of his government, then the question is what do you put in its place? You know, you then have accepted the responsibility for governing Iraq.

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• Because if we had gone to Baghdad we would have been all alone. There wouldn't have been anybody else with us. It would have been a U.S. occupation of Iraq. None of the Arab forces that were willing to fight with us in Kuwait were willing to invade Iraq. Once you got to Iraq and took it over and took down Saddam Hussein's government, then what are you going to put in its place? That's a very volatile part of the world. And if you take down the central government in Iraq, you could easily end up seeing pieces of Iraq fly off. Part of it the Syrians would like to have, the west. Part of eastern Iraq the Iranians would like to claim. Fought over for eight years. In the north, you've got the Kurds. And if the Kurds spin loose and join with Kurds in Turkey, then you threaten the territorial integrity of Turkey. It's a quagmire if you go that far and try to take over Iraq. The other thing is casualties. Everyone was impressed with the fact that we were able to do our job with as few casualti

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• The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regimes friendly to the United States. Occasionally we have to operate in places where, all things considered, one would not normally choose to go. But, we go where the business is.

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