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During the 1991 Shi'a uprising against Saddam in Iraq, Dick Cheney stated "I'm not sure whose side you'd want to be on." By 1998, the Iraq Liberation Act made it US policy to support the removal of Saddam. In terms of US geopolitical strategy, what led to this policy shift?

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