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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Don Hurst who wrote (59910)	11/5/2000 7:33:57 PM
From: SecularBull	Respond to of 769670

The coalition was not in favor of taking Saddam out. President Bush (the first one) did not have that as an option. Nice revisionist history (or selective memory). LoF

To: Don Hurst who wrote (59910)	11/5/2000 8:30:11 PM
From: Selectric II	Respond to of 769670

I guess I failed to explain my point. First, we had no legal authority to take Saddam out. If we had done so, we would have made more enemies than friends in the Middle East. We would have destabilized the region. Iran and Iraq were keeping each other at bay, which was what the world wanted. Everyone wanted Saddam out of Kuwait, but nobody wanted the U.S. deciding unilaterally who in the Middle East gets taken out. Second, we didn't know where Saddam was. To take him out would have required a door-to-door ground war in cities, with lots of casualties, both US military and Iraqi civilian. The media already was making a big deal out of civilian casualties, which Saddam picked up on early and used to his propaganda benefit. Remember the videos of people scurrying about a bombed-out building, wearing jump suits with, "Infant Formula Factory," or such words, printed in ENGLISH on their backs? It was probably a biological warfare agent factory, but unnerved some. Imagine what would have happened, had we sent ground troops into Baghdad to find Saddam, and started suffering massive ground warfare casualties of US troops and Iraqi civilians in door-to-door fighting. No, thanks.