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

To: MSI who wrote (237936)	3/14/2002 1:38:13 PM
From: CountofMoneyCristo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

And then.... stopped. And put him on ice. We didn't need any authorizations by the UN, any more than we've needed them this time. You raise a damned fine point. Here are some more: 1. Before the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, with hundreds of thousands of infantry massing on the border, why on earth did our our ambassador in Baghdad, April Glaspie, state, and I quote verbatim, that "The United States has no opinion on your border dispute with Kuwait." That is as close to a green light as it gets. I have always wondered about that. 2. Why did the United States target a helpless Iraqi infantry forced at gunpoint and with threats of murder against families, and allow those truly loyal to Saddam, the Republican Guards, to largely escape? 3. Why the cease-fire? 4. Why did the United States encourage both the Shiites in the south and the Kurds in the north to attempt an overthrow, promising tactical support, and then leave them to be massacred by Iraqi helicopters spraying poison gas? These questions have never been answered satisfactorily, and I would like to know why.

To: MSI who wrote (237936)	3/14/2002 10:27:02 PM
From: Selectric II	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

In Desert Storm, GHWB had authority and a mandate only to kick Saddam out of Kuwait, not to rid Iraq of Saddam. Even that barely passed in the Senate, with Al Gore selling his vote in favor for national t.v. air time. The U.N. resolution was the same. The elder Bush had no authority to do more, the mission was accomplished in full, and it was only afterwards that people started saying, "shoulda, coulda, woulda." In fact, it would have taken an urban street-to-street fight with untold ground casualties to do the job.