Quote from Bush 41

[Langis]

I don't know if this has been posted before, but I thought it was very interesting.

"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." - George H. W. Bush

[onebigbadwulf]

1. Yeah

we have a few threads about it. It's my AIM profile right now.

[sendero]

2. Just goes to show...

... there is an exception to every rule. The apple sometimes does fall far from the tree.

I don't think it could be stated much more clearly and correctly.

[Renew Deal]

3. Kick

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