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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: freelyhovering who wrote (31333)11/10/2006 6:16:55 AM
From: Cogito   of 541660
 
Myron -

I hadn't read that. Interesting stuff.

It just occurred to me that what's going on in Iraq is not exactly a war at this point. It's more an occupation that is going very, very badly.

This is from the Wikipedia article on George H.W. Bush:

"In a foreign policy move that would later be questioned, President Bush achieved his stated objectives of liberating Kuwait and forcing Iraqi withdrawal, then ordered a cessation of combat operations —allowing Saddam Hussein to stay in power. His Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney noted that invading the country would get the United States 'bogged down in the quagmire inside Iraq.'

"Bush later explained that he did not give the order to overthrow the Iraqi government because it would have 'incurred incalculable human and political costs... We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq'.

"In explaining to Gulf War veterans why he chose not to pursue the war further, President Bush said, 'Whose life would be on my hands as the commander-in-chief because I, unilaterally, went beyond the international law, went beyond the stated mission, and said we're going to show our macho? We're going into Baghdad. We're going to be an occupying power — America in an Arab land — with no allies at our side. It would have been disastrous.'"

- Allen
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