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To: michael97123 who wrote (150432)	11/2/2004 11:36:18 AM
From: Michael Watkins	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

First off, Al Qaeda and Iraq are not synonymous - certainly not in Bush Sr's time, and as numerous investigations have shown, not pre-Iraq invasion either. Secondly, Bush Sr. stopped progressing into Iraq because a) the mandate wasn't there, b) clearly he's smarter than his son, c) Bush knew that sanctions and other measures would be used to contain Saddam. Clearly it was his judgement that containment was a preferable strategy. History agrees with him. Also, remember that Bush Sr. wrote those comments long after the war, so he had benefit of knowledge of the the Iraqi purge / post 1991 Shia uprising. Everything else he fortold still stands as "coming true and remains to be seen". "Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land. It would have been a dramatically different — and perhaps barren — outcome." (Film at 11)