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

To: Bill who wrote (378022)	3/24/2003 5:07:20 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

In retrospect, it was a bad decision. >>> No kidding. It was easy to see at the time, too. But at the time, there was every belief that the post-war regime, whatever it was, would be better integrated and supervised by the international community. >>> Are you nuts? No one with half a brain - or who understood anything about Iraqi history - believed that. Monday morning quarterbacking is easy. >>> Like I said, I was 'screaming from the rooftops' at the time about was a strategic screw-up Desert Storm was... about how any beneficial impact was squandered away by the strategic failure of leaving the dictator in power. >>> We had two bites at the apple (with 24 more hours, we could have toppled Saddam ourselves... or by providing air support to the rebellions we could have also brought about his end, albeit in a messier, less controlled way), and we turned away both times. >>> Bush I was strategically a wash-out (and his economic failures only added to his failure).