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

To: jlallen who wrote (506741)	12/9/2003 2:56:07 PM
From: Krowbar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

In his memoirs, “A World Transformed”, written five years ago, George Bush, Sr., wrote the following explaining why he didn't go after Saddam Hussein in 1991 "Trying to eliminate Saddam...would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. Apprehending him was probably impossible.... We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq.... there was no viable "exit strategy" we could see, violating another of our principles. Furthermore, we had been self-consciously trying to set a pattern for handling aggression in the post-Cold War world. Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped to establish." George H.W. Bush He even further warned: "Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land." Dubya shoulda listened to daddy. Del