Dan,
Stil checking but i found this quote from an interview with Jim Lehrer:
PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH: Well, one reason, you’d have added the a lot of deaths of innocent Americans too. We had international law on our side – not to kill Saddam Hussein but to end the aggression. And we ended the aggression. And as a result of that, you saw the Middle East peace process begin at Madrid. That wouldn’t have happened if we unilaterally had marched into Baghdad. And what gets me, Jim, is you got a lot of revisionists now that take a look ex-post facto and say you should have gone in and killed Saddam Hussein. Would you want your son there in an urban, a guerrilla war, where we couldn’t even find a two-bit warlord in Mogadishu – dusty warehouses -- and then they’re saying to me now late – hey, you should have gone in and killed him, alone , occupying power in an Arab land – the United States of America -- no way. Now am I happy he’s there? No. But we had a mission; we defined it, and thanks to the heroism of a lot of young Americans we fulfilled that mission. And I don’t believe in mission creep, incidentally.
I don' think it necessarily proves or disproves he point.
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