"It's important to realize that I was actually black before the election.
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Selected Quotes of Dick Cheney
"I think for us to get American military personell involved in a civil war inside Iraq would literally be a quagmire. Once we got to Baghdad, what would we do? ... I do not think the United States wants to have U.S. military forces accept casualties and accept responsibility of trying to govern Iraq. It makes no sense at all.
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