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 could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land."
If only his son could read.
I don't know who started this email, but I did check it out. It is an excerpt from the book, page 489.
I've spent all day making phone calls for KerryKentucky, verifying email addresses. Dozens of people took time to tell me that they wanted to DO something about all this.
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I can't believe for such an intelligent person how backwards you have it. It's KERRY who would be a disaster in the Oval Office. Thank God for George Bush out there taking the fight against evil off of our shores and taking it to the terrorists' backyard. I just couldn't sit here any longer and read the mindless liberal drivel that you just seem to lap up and publish here. You should stick to music, that's something of interest that you at least have some amateur proficiency in.
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