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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (36276)	6/9/2005 12:04:44 PM
From: zonder	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

Al Quaeda has been pursued with admirable vigor. Really. Where is Bin Ladin? Has Al-Qaeda been crushed? Is the Muslim world turned against Al-Qaeda? Do opinion polls in Muslim countries show decreased sympathy for Al-Qaeda and its nutty "cause"? Even if you think Al-Qaeda has been pursued well, don't you think any effort in that direction could have been much more effective if the military was not stuck in a country that had nothing to do with 9/11? that regime change had been a policy of the US since the first Bush was in office Not really. If that had been the case, Bush I would have marched to Baghdad and taken out Saddam himself. Instead, he explains quite eloquently why he didn't: "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. Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land." Source: "A World Transformed", President George Bush As I said before, there were people with far better foresight than Bush II, and he chose to ignore them. One of them was his father.