Dick Cheney

Position: US Secetary of Defense

Experience: University of Wyoming, Cheif of staff to President Ford, six term representative for Wyoming,

Role: Lead/Oversaw US military operations during the war.

“The question was, the thing no one could answer was the question of casualties and we assumed with respect to the air war that our worst night would be the first night. That you had the Iraqi forces, the air force basically full up, the air defence system in place”³²

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31. Cheney, Richard. "Oral History: Richard Cheney." PBS: Frontline. 1995.

32. Cheney. "Oral History: Richard Cheney." 1995.

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“ We've run six weeks of air war. Enormously successful, devastated the Iraqi armed forces.”³¹