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I think it is vitally important for a President to know when to use military force. I think it is also very important for him to know when not to commit U.S. military force.... [I]t would have been a mistake for us to get bogged down in the quagmire inside Iraq...
Saddam Hussein's offensive military capability, his capacity to threaten his neighbors, has been virtually eliminated.

Dick Cheney, 1991