Dubya's Dad Warned Iraq Would Become Quagmire

[Nicholas_J]

Dubya's Dad Warned Iraq Would Become Quagmire
By GEORGE GEDDA

Not many people foresaw the postwar difficulties the administration has endured in Iraq. Of the few who did, two stand out, both lions of the Republican Party.
One was President George H.W. Bush. The other was his secretary of state, James A. Baker.

"Incalculable human and political costs" would have been the result, the senior Bush has said, if his administration had pushed all the way to Baghdad and sought to overthrow Saddam Hussein after the U.S.-led coalition ousted the Iraqi army from Kuwait during the Persian Gulf war in 1991.

"We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect rule Iraq," Bush wrote. "The coalition would have instantly collapsed. ... Going in and thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations mandate would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression we hoped to establish.

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_5109.shtml


Its and oldie,but a goodie, and I hope not a dupe.

[alcuno]

1. Relax. * checked with Condi and Karen before going to war.

To me, that's the most damning evidence of his irresponsible conduct. Woodward's book said he ran it by these two and that's it. No war cabinet meeting? No checking with his dad?

[shockingelk]

3. + he "personally called all the generals"

To make sure they had everything they needed (... 'cause he sure as hell wasn't going to listen to their advice).

[candy331]

2. Why didn't he tell his boy this? n/t

[The Backlash Cometh]

4. What does that say when someone of W I's caliber lies wilfully

just to see his son get a second term? Doesn't he realize that WII will be blamed for the U.S.A.'s second Vietnam?

[mbali]

5. Who cares? His "Higher Father" told him it would be a cakewalk

[pretzel4gore]

6. quagmire for whom?

bushinc staged a coup during last election, illegally took control of the US gov. and what they needed was time time and more time....iraq has bought them a couple years. and as far as the public interest etc, bush giggles at very idea....fuk iraq, fuk the liberalite usa and fuk the world hahaha!
and they're getting away with it
the pretense any of those murdering thieves is sincere about the 'national interest' is goofy...peewee herman's the prez for gosh's sake!