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Politics : Piffer Thread on Political Rantings and Ravings -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: zonder who wrote (12341)	1/23/2004 6:27:48 AM
From: E. T.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14610

All these guys speak with a forked tongue. By all accounts, after the gulf war was won, Bush Sr. couldn't have cared less about Iraq. He gave scant attention to the cease-fire deal worked out by his lower echelon advisers. A smarter deal, more crippling to Saddam and his military could have been worked out at the time. The Bush Sr. administration simply walked away from Iraq, sort of like Reagan did after the Soviet pullout of Afghanistan. Bush Sr. may say one thing in 1998, but he was thinking something else (or rather not thinking) at the end of the gulf war. Also Thatcher, Schwarzkopf (sp) and others have long said Saddam should not have been left in power.

To: zonder who wrote (12341)	1/23/2004 10:15:25 AM
From: X Y Zebra	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14610

too late for all that stuff now... what is being faced now is a really hard task ahead... unfortunately there will not be an easy out... and this is what pisses me off from a potential win/win situation (had we gone in with full support as in the 1990/91 war) --nevertheless still hard task-- we have gone into a near impossible win situation... and possibly a stay considerably longer than desired, which will cost us plenty. so the focus now is... how do we resolve this?