It was no mistake; they knew exactly what would happen, as Dick Cheney himself had publicly predicted just a few years before: Once you got to Iraq and took it

It was no mistake; they knew exactly what would happen, as Dick Cheney himself had publicly predicted just a few years before: 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. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BEsZMvrq-I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BEsZMvrq-I