Damn the consequences when there is oil to be plundered! Interesting footage.

It's difficult to argue with a videotape of someone's actual answers. In several publications, the people who worked closely with Cheney under other administrations describe him as a stranger they don't recognize anymore, he has changed that much--and for the worse.

Of course this is pre-9/11 thinking - also pre Halliburton thinking. I've added the YouTube link to the Cheney video (see below). Worth viewing.

As Jon Stewart would say, "Don't these people know we keep these videos?" I respect a public figure who can re-think a failed position and admit a mistake. But this is just a big flip-flop. As E&P notes, it's also a terrific coup for citizen journalism. Not a great story, but a terrific topic!

Delivers the interview...interviewer does not spin the questions, all tho he continues the fantasy that the first gulf war was somehow legitimate . Cheney gives credible answers. I wonder what happened between the time of the filming and the massive bombing prior to the invasion. While this is not new, the access to it on You Tube makes this recent past a little closer and scarier. Have any sociologist and/or psychiatrists made a profile of the Cheney/Bush case?

That C-SPAN showed this again recently was first rate journalism. That a citizen spotted it and figured we might not all be watching C-Span 3 and placed it where we could see it was good journalism. That a reporter sat down and asked Cheney these questions also was good journalism-- at the time simply creating an important record for those interested in history, of the Gulf War--- its amazing current import far from anyone's imagination. However, this good journalism brings up the issue of horrible journalism. Why did not a single network reporter recall this and play it over and over again right after Dick Cheney declared War on Iraq in his speech in the summer of 2002. One good place to play it over and over would have been ... More »

E&P aren't shy about saying good journalism is good journalism no matter where the story originates.

Alas, all the subsequent history is missing. Al Queda was not in Iraq in 1994, they arrived two-three years later and had begun their strong collaboration with Saddam Hussein by the end of the decade. Much of the mass murder under Saddam Hussein was still to come. September 11 had not occured. And the liberation of Iraq was accomplished by an alliance of more than two dozen countries. Mr Cheney in the 1994 interview discusses an invasion of Iraq by the U.S., without other support. He was right then, and is right now; the situations are totally different. How this story ever got published is a mystery, but the publication is known for its slanted coverage of news, as opposed to financial data for its industry.

E&P has become a mouthpiece for all too familiar leftwing causes. Just look at their book reviews on Amazon. It's really too bad that most media purveyors are little more than propaganda outlets. And the worst part is the pretense of objectivity.