Remember Daddy Bush's reasons NOT to invade Iraq. For our new folks.

[madfloridian]

I know we have all seen these excerpts, maybe from his book, but these are statements made by GHWB and Scowcroft in 2002. Dean read from Daddy Bush's book on the Chris Wallace show about why we should not invade. This is just a reminder for the new folks here.

http://www.thememoryhole.org/mil/bushsr-iraq.htm

Reasons Not to Invade Iraq,
by George Bush Sr.

>>>" On 21 September 2002, The Memory Hole posted an extract from an essay by George Bush Sr. and Brent Scowcroft, in which they explain why they didn't have the military push into Iraq and topple Saddam during Gulf War 1. Although there are differences between the Iraq situations in 1991 and 2002-3, Bush's key points apply to both.

But a funny thing happened. Fairly recently, Time pulled the essay off of their site. It used to be at this link, which now gives a 404 error. If you go to the table of contents for the issue in which the essay appeared (2 March 1998), "Why We Didn't Remove Saddam" is conspicuously absent.

Because of this erasure, we're posting the entire essay below the portion we originally excerpted. Below that, you'll find a copy of the actual page from the magazine, courtesy of Bruce Koball and Boing Boing."

Lots of good stuff here.

[bvar22]

1. Thanks for posting this.

I already have copies on my hd, and burned to disc, but I want this info to be duplicated in as many places as possible.

This one article shouts LIE, LIE, LIE to the bush* adms excuse on Iraq:"Gee, who wudda thunk this could happen. Nobody told us!"

The RightWing fascists haven't yet realized that The Internet has made it impossible to revise History.