| And W. is Our President..... |
[04 Nov 2003|03:14am] |
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My friend Jim sent this to me. It is so sadly true.....
In his memoirs, "A World Transformed," written more than five years ago,
George Bush, Sr. wrote the following to explain why he didn't go after
Saddam Hussein at the end of the Gulf War.
"Trying to eliminate Saddam...would have incurred incalculable human
and political costs. Apprehending him was probably impossible.... We
would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq....
there was no viable "exit strategy" we could see, violating another of
our principles. Furthermore, we had been self-consciously trying to set
a pattern for handling aggression in the post-Cold War world. Going in
and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations'
mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response
to aggression that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion
route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power
in a bitterly hostile land."
If only his son could read...........
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