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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: E. T. who wrote (555296)3/23/2004 5:34:14 PM
From: Gus  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
You're incoherent.

1) The first Gulf war coalition was built around defending the principle of post-Cold War territorial integrity. That's why it was popular. But that coalition would not have supported regime change in Iraq after we kicked out Iraq from Kuwait.

2) Regime change was a second-term issue that needed a different coalition because it was very unpopular, but Clinton won in 1992. Despite the fact that Saddam Hussein was mortally wounded politically after the 1991 Gulf War, Clinton pursued an ineffectual UN sanctions policy that allowed Saddam Hussein to recover. It also followed a flaccid diplomatic policy that allowed Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda to grow and flourish such that at the end of 8 years of the Clinton administration, we were faced not only with renewed threats of secular terrorism from Iraq but also new religious terrorism from Al Qaeda.
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