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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth
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To: Mighty_Mezz who wrote (25828)9/28/2004 3:40:31 PM
From: Ron  Read Replies (2) of 173976
 
In his memoirs, A World Transformed, written five years ago, George Herbert Walker Bush 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 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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