Video Found of Rand Paul In ’09: Cheney Pushed Iraq War To Benefit Halliburton

David Corn of Mother Jones found what Rand Paul said in 2009.

In the video, shot at Western Kentucky University, Paul argues that Cheney thought the invasion was a bad idea in the first Bush administration but changed his tune after working for Halliburton.

“He’s being interviewed (in 1995), I think, by the American Enterprise Institute, and and he says it would be a disaster, it would be vastly expensive, it would be civil war, we’d have no exit strategy. He goes on and on for five minutes — Dick Cheney saying it would be a bad idea,” Paul said. “And that’s why the first Bush didn’t go into Baghdad. Dick Cheney then goes to work for Halliburton. Makes hundreds of millions of dollars — their CEO. Next thing you know, he’s back in government, it’s a good idea to go into Iraq.”

Paul also said the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were used as a pretext for the invasion.

“It became an excuse,” Paul said. “9/11 became an excuse for a war they already wanted in Iraq.”

 

By: Cheston Catalano

Cheston Catalano is a Kentucky-based journalist whose work has been featured in the Chattanooga Times Free Press and the Clarksville Leaf Chronicle. He is a long-time contributor to Liberaland.