Poppa Bush's quote from 1998 on Iraq (he hates freedom too)...

[sonicx]

http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/gulfwar.asp

<<Trying to eliminate Saddam, extending the ground war into an occupation of Iraq, would have violated our guideline about not changing objectives in midstream, engaging in "mission creep," and would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. Apprehending him was probably impossible. We had been unable to find Noriega in Panama, which we knew intimately. We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq. The coalition would instantly have collapsed, the Arabs deserting it in anger and other allies pulling out as well. Under the circumstances, 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. It would have been a dramatically different — and perhaps barren — outcome.>>


Junior listens to the wrong father.

[justgamma]

1. Swear to God

I heard Poppy say on tv, that he thought Sonny was not doing the right thing. I remember him sitting on a high backed, stuffed chair, sort of sitting sidewise on it. Said that that would be the only time anybody would hear him say that. I remember so clearly and for the life of me can't remember the show or who was interviewing.