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To: zonder who wrote (36281)	6/9/2005 12:48:19 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Respond to of 90947

"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:" jla misspoke. Regime change has been OFFICIAL US POLICY since 1998 when Clinton and the Congress made it so. Bush 41 mistakenly thought Saddam's regime would collapse or be overthrown anyway, and then he failed to support efforts of Iraqis to bring that about, which is why the Shia in Iraq had difficulty trusting us early in this war. Bush 41 was wrong. Clinton and Congress were right in 1998 (not that they did anything about it then, of course) and Bush 43 is right now.