these people are so powerful that they direct even policy. there s a great youtube of dick cheney in 1995 defending bush number one and he goes on for about five minutes. he s being interviewed by the american enterprise institute. and he said it would be a disaster, it would be vastly expensive, it would be a civil war, we d have no exit strategy. he goes on and on for five minutes, dick cheney saying it would be a bad idea and that s why the first bush didn t go to baghdad. dick cheney goes to work for halliburton, makes hundreds of millions of dollars and he s back in government and it s a good idea to go to iraq. the video was not new. that speech was made five years ago to college republicans at western kentucky university and it has, to be clear, been sitting on youtube. but it is sparking a new fight today. and while it might not be shocking that paul would make a blunt argument against u.s. interventions and accuse the party s last vice president of
it would be vastly expensive, it would be a civil war. we would have no exit strategy. he goes on and on for five minutes. dick cheney said it was a bad idea. that s why we didn t go to baghd baghdad. few years later he s back in the government and it s a good idea to go into iraq. 5 richard pearl is coming out of the white house. the first thing richard pearl says is we ve got it, now we can go into iraq. and he said don t we need to know they have some connection to 9/11 he says it doesn t matter. it became an excuse. 9/11 became an excuse for a war they already wanted in iraq. that s an amazing thing to read something that sounded so much like my own and your own critique of the war.
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he s also trying to encourage ukraine, and he brought with him ukraine s acting foreign minister who i m told recently was one of the protesters in the square. he himself, now he s the acting foreign minister and leading this young transitional group, trying to stand against russia. so what kerry is trying to do by bringing him here to paris is elevate him to give him legitimacy and help him stand up to russia and also help persuade his colleagues that they should avoid any military confrontation that would give putin a pretex to move further into ukraine. and frankly, that is what u.s. officials think is really putin s end game. they believe he does want to take over ukraine. that this is part of his grand vision to re-create what was lost with the end of the soviet union, to re-create a russian federation that is really an empire. they don t know how to deter him from this, and that, of course, is what president obama is trying to do by playing the exit strategy, trying to appeal to
from the brink. we ve seen that in the reaction of the world stock markets already. and even though rhymea remaicri very tense on the ground, those pictures prove that, even a report of russians seizing two more crimean anti-missile posts, the perception is that ukraine is spinning not toward war but some kind of diplomatic solution. secretary of state meeting with count counterpart sergey lavrov. this is the first time since the current crisis escalated that they ve had a face-to-face to talk exit strategy. the ukrainian and russian governments meeting for the very first time, talking on a cabinet level today. and russian defense official is discussing ukraine later today at nato in brussels. so, there is definitely a change. whether this change is sustained is another question. back to you be. on the international stage