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

To: E. T. who wrote (224610)	2/3/2002 8:58:08 AM
From: Selectric II	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

We didn't have a mandate to "finish" Saddam. You're hypocritical in calling for international agreement in one breath, and then saying we unilaterally should have waged a door-to-door ground war in Baghdad in the next. 1. Congress just barely approved use of force at all. Remember Gore selling his important vote for national air time to make a speech? Many Democrats opposed ANY intervention. 2. The U.S. and coalition mandate was just to get Saddam out of Kuwait. Nothing more. We would have been breaking our international agreement if we'd done more. 3. Getting Saddam would have required door-to-door combat in Baghdad, with huge casualties. That would have gone over really well in the media, I'm sure. 4. GHW Bush accomplished exactly what the American people, Kuwaitis, Saudis, and the world wanted. No more, no less. Only after the fact did the criticism from the left begin.