Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on
"It's not the first time that citizen 'investigative journalists' have uncovered some embarrassing, or telling, nugget from the past that apparently remained buried for years," writes Editor and Publisher magazine. "But it has happened again with the posting of a now wildly popular video on YouTube that shows Dick Cheney explaining in 1994 that trying to take over Iraq would be a bad idea and lead to a 'quagmire.'" Since August 10, when the video was posted on YouTube, it has been viewed by more than 400,000 people.