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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (43367)	4/21/2004 4:18:52 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

globeandmail.com TODAY'S PAPER The U.S. is in the soup in Iraq By JEFFREY SIMPSON Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - Page A23 Paul Wolfowitz, a policy-maker turned academic, explained in 1997 why the administration of President George Bush Sr. had not pushed on to Baghdad during the Persian Gulf war of 1991. His words are worth pondering, since Mr. Wolfowitz subsequently became a leading proponent of invading Iraq as deputy defence secretary under President George W. Bush. Mr. Wolfowitz wrote in 1997, "A new regime [in Iraq] would have become the United States' responsibility. Conceivably, this could have led the United States into a more or less permanent occupation of a country that could not govern itself, but where the rule of a foreign occupier would be increasingly resented."... More at the above link............