Dick Cheney - Liberators Quotes

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[In response to "We have not been greeted as liberators."] "Well, I think we have by most Iraqis. I think the majority of Iraqis are thankful for the fact that the United States is there, that we came and we took down the Saddam Hussein government. And I think if you go in vast areas of the country, the Shia in the south, which are about 60 percent of the population, 20-plus percent in the north, in the Kurdish areas, and in some of the Sunni areas, you'll find that, for the most part, a majority of Iraqis support what we did.

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In response to "Do you think the American people are prepared for a long, costly, and bloody battle with significant American casualties?":

"Well, I don't think it's likely to unfold that way, because I really do believe that we will be greeted as liberators. I've talked with a lot of Iraqis in the last several months myself, had them to the White House.... The read we get on the people of Iraq is there is no question but what they want to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they will welcome as liberators the United States when we come to do that."

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My belief is, we will, in fact be greeted as liberators.

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

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