posted on August 11, 2004 01:15:04 PM new
In his memoirs, "A World Transformed," written five years ago,
George Bush Sr. wrote the following to explain why he didn't go after
Saddam Hussein at the end of the Gulf War.
"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 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 coul d conceivably still be an occupying power
in a bitterly hostile land."
If only his son could read.
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posted on August 11, 2004 01:47:46 PM new
Daddy Bush needs to take his a$$hole son to the wood shed and either beat some sense into him or beat the non-sense out of him.
posted on August 11, 2004 01:56:32 PM new
Real fathers and sons don't engage in foreplay, Reamond. Do tell us more, how WAS your relationship with your father? Did he voice approval of this sort of violence? Why do you say this is the appropriate response if you disagree with a youngsters actions? I can sense 'issues' here that you should deal with.
posted on August 11, 2004 03:16:01 PM new
I just love how some of the lefties here think something that was stated that long ago is/was still relivant so many years later - NOW!!....especially following 9-11 and the threat they've all always thought saddam presented.
But I'm not supposed to even mention that clinton thought they had womd too....as THAT happened so long ago.
LOL you guys crack me up.
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posted on August 11, 2004 04:54:47 PM newI just love how some of the lefties here think something that was stated that long ago is/was still relivant so many years later
This coming from someone who constantly harps backon Clinton...
edited to insert "ly" where it would do the most good.
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[ edited by bunnicula on Aug 11, 2004 04:55 PM ]
posted on August 11, 2004 05:59:10 PM newI just love how some of the lefties here think something that was stated that long ago is/was still relivant so many years later - NOW!!....especially following 9-11 and the threat they've all always thought saddam presented.
How can you say the war in Iraq was the result of what happened on 9/11 when there is proof Bush started planning the war well before 9/11. He just used 9/11 as his excuse for going to war. If 9/11 did not happen the war would have still occurred.
Let's have a BBQ, Texas style, ROAST BUSH
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posted on August 11, 2004 06:26:50 PM new
Yes, bunni, exactly what I was pointing out. It's that ol' double standard again.
I'm not to do so, but lefties are allowed to without being reminded how many things have changed in those passing years since Bush1 made those decisions.
posted on August 11, 2004 06:56:51 PM new
For the second time this november America will kick out a bush....I hope this time they learned their lesson.
It's that ol' double standard again.