ALL BUSH SUPPORTERS READ THIS
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| Thu, 09-02-2004 - 10:03am |
'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.'


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Donna
Palak, echoing Sondra, I too, hope you will not be leaving. You're posts are a valuable addition to the discussion around here.
I must say that I have been saddened to read your comments about me this morning. You have known me (in the IVillage sense) for quite a while now. I have
Renee ~~~
Perhaps the most startling example of this truth is to study the Holocaust...for far to long the Jews believed that they would see change, that someone would come to their senses if they appeased their oppressors by going along with them as it were. We all know the tragic results of that hope they held so near and dear to their hearts. By the time of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, in many ways it was already far to late, and the dark stain on the fabric of world society should hopefully always serve as a reminder to all that we must always be willing to stand up for what we know and feel to be right, and that we cannot afford as a society to allow wrongs to go unchallenged, for in doing so we give the voices of tyranny their power and control.
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