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

To: Srexley who wrote (194439)	10/22/2001 3:39:46 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769670

President Bush did what all agreed should be done. mr. bill the coward backed down and was bullied by Saddam by doing nothing when Saddam violated the terms of an agreement. There was a legal reason to hold Saddam to the agreements and mr.bill was typically stupid or cowardly or both. tom watson tosiwmee

To: Srexley who wrote (194439)	10/22/2001 3:46:17 PM
From: E. T.	Respond to of 769670

"but I am not one of the "revisionists" that looks at something in late 2001 as part of his reasoning to support what we did 10 years ago." Look, I don't mean to revise history, nor am I interested in bringing up what happened ten years ago. I'm really responding to those posters who put all the blame of recent events on Clinton, I says Reagan and Bush Sr. need to take some responsibility "What specifically do you mean by "keeping up the pressure"?" What I mean is what I heard on a PBS Frontline feature on the Gulf War. It concluded that Iraq was in no position to bargain for anything at the end of the war, but because important administration officials did not play a role in the negotiated settlement, Iraq was able to bargain. ie fly zones, use of helicopters, rules regarding the rebuilding of the Iraqi military... I think generally what PBS was saying was that the Iraqi military could have been wittled down enough that a coup would have been imminently possible. In fact, Frontline was quite disparaging about Bush Sr.'s instant disinterest in the Iraqi situation after the Gulf war ended.