00:00Dick Cheney's legacy is fundamentally complicated, fundamentally polarizing, and in many respects
00:26divisive. He was a champion on the right when he was in office, and he had a long career dating back
00:34to the late 60s up to the late 2000s. He was very obviously played a lot of prominent role across
00:40multiple administrations. He embodied a certain form of a Reagan approach with a hawkish line on
00:48national security, an advocate for conservative judges, and for sort of limiting taxes.
00:56The enemy has shown a capacity to inflict great damage on the United States.
01:26And we have to assume there will be more attacks. That is the only safe way to proceed.
01:35On my orders, the United States military has begun strikes against al-Qaeda terrorist training camps
01:46and military installations of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.
01:50Because he was very much a proponent of some of the more controversial policies of, you know,
01:57the George W. Bush administration, whether you're thinking about sort of enhanced interrogations or
02:02torture, essentially. If you're thinking about sort of surveillance, the Patriot Act,
02:09or surveillance also, domestic spying on Americans, and of course, his most hawkish line on the war in Iraq
02:16and being largely unapologetic about it. I think many of those issues, I think, played into that perception
02:22of Dick Cheney not being the most sympathetic character to his opponents.
02:27What evidence can you lay before the world that Saddam Hussein...
02:36We have to be concerned about the potential marriage, if you will, between a terrorist organization like al-Qaeda
02:44and those who hold or are proliferating knowledge about weapons of mass destruction.
02:50So the concern is very real, it's very great, and we need to find ways as we go forward to make certain that
02:58the terrorist never acquires that capability, and that it can never be used against the United States
03:04or the United Kingdom or our allies.
03:06And then I think in terms of the way in which the war on terror was prosecuted, I think that was not necessarily specifically to Europe,
03:25but I think the damage that the scandal around enhanced interrogation over Abu Ghraib and other forms of a very militarized response to the war on terror
03:41were also issues where, at least at the time, I think really put Dick Cheney at odds with the European public.
03:48You could argue that over the years, there's been some convergence in the way that counterterrorism has operated.
03:55But if we're thinking back to that specific time, I think there was quite a big gap between the European response to the war on terror
04:02and the line that was advocated by Dick Cheney.
04:14In downtown Baghdad this morning, we're seeing evidence of the collapse of any central regime authority.
04:21The streets are full of people celebrating.
04:24While pockets of regime security forces may remain, they appear to be far less effective at putting up any resistance.
04:32The people can't do it.
04:33You're going to show you under people's devices.
04:44They are the old tanks on the vehicle from the old-
04:47So, these are some of the advisers that work with them.
04:51The Lieutenant Colonel Turner from Virginia.
04:55what we did in iraq was exactly the right thing to do if i had it to recommend all over again i
05:04would recommend exactly the right same course of action the world's far safer today because saddam
05:09hussein is in jail his government's no longer in power and we did exactly the right thing
05:15there are a lot of interesting stories about the degree to which
05:19dick cheney really you know went after harang and put pressure on members of the intelligence
05:27community uh analysts to basically get raw data and you know the accusation for critics is
05:35essentially that they politicized the intelligence that they basically forced implicitly or explicitly
05:43analysts to find these connections and so i think the fact that it turned out to be stupendously
05:49wrong i think has really created deep skepticism towards the ability of the intelligence community
05:58as well as the risk of the political officials you know basically manipulating or instrumentalizing
06:06intelligence for their own benefits and i would say that both inside the united states but of course
06:11is externally um i mean we we saw we've seen the same uh sort of um references or invocations of
06:20can we trust the u.s intelligence because of what happened 20 years ago
06:26thank you very much wyoming the chinese are diehard globalists and warmongers who have been
06:38plunging us into new conflicts for decades spilling american blood and spending american treasure all
06:46over the world i think january 6th is a fundamental fork in the road i think for dick cheney i think
06:54there's still a general reverence for the peaceful transition of power and for the constitution at times
07:01he may himself as sort of have sort of been on treaded on delicate grounds but i think that was for
07:07dick cheney a clear sort of you know red line what he viewed donald trump as being responsible for in
07:15january 6th was just unforgivable the fact that then his own daughter uh you know liz cheney was so
07:22prominent in basically being part of the committee and then becoming very much persona non grata in
07:28the mega world i think obviously contributed in our nation's 246 year history there has never been
07:34an individual who was a greater threat to our republic than donald trump he tried to steal the last
07:40election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him
07:58and he was a bit more than that machine with the remainder of the in-person of the world i think he
08:03had a best not done in this country around the world i think this is the right one of the
08:07other most people are aço of the national authorities not to be in a 1996 but i think that
08:09that's so important because you know it really has to be much even influenced by the
08:10people who experienced these issues and they do love you to even understand the possibilities of
08:11the wave of the world i think there's a huge point that i think when you know that i feel the
08:13kind of relationship and you know that i think there's a lot of people who was going to go back and
08:17and i want to affect all of the things that i think there's been very much is i think pe� astray for that i think is going to be the
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