Interesting quote from Bush senior!

[Dhul Fiqar]

In his memoirs, A World Transformed, written more than 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 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."


If only his son could read. =D

--- G.

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

if only

[Desert Fox]

LOL !!! And I thought he wanted to occupy Iraq to make daddy happy. Since I thought he had a grudge he didn't took out Saddam when he had the chance and his son had to do his dirty work. But however knowing bush and his family I don't see any truth in his statement ...

[Rastafari]

"We should not march into Baghdad...to occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world against us, and make a broken tyrant into a latter-day Arab hero...assigning young soldiers to a fruitless hunt for an securely entrenched dictator and condemning them to fight in what would be a an unwinnable Guerilla war. It could only plunge that part of the world into even greater instability."
-George H.W. Bush, A World Transformed, 1998


Bush baby seems to have felt the same way, before Saddam attacked us on 9.11

[Marxist in Nebraska]

Rasta,

It is hard to say whether Bush had any interest in attacking Iraq before 9/11. It is clear that the neo-con ideologues like Wolfowitz were drawing up warplans for regime change in Iraq by the time Bush, Sr. was wrapping up the first Gulf War. After 9/11, Bush clearly adopted the strategies Wolfowitz and Co. had drawn up ten years ago.

[mentalbunny]

Dubya doesn't have much of a choice, he has to do what the neo-conservatives tell him.

[Exploited Class]

Originally posted by Desert [email protected] 28 2003, 02:28 PM
LOL !!! And I thought he wanted to occupy Iraq to make daddy happy. Since I thought he had a grudge he didn't took out Saddam when he had the chance and his son had to do his dirty work. But however knowing bush and his family I don't see any truth in his statement ...
I wonder if Bush Jr. knows that he was setup for failure? Everything that Bush Sr. said is true and is proving very true and he knew that all of this was going to happen, yet he told his son to do that which he knew would deystroy him as a President.

Nobody can get me to believe that Bush Sr. doesn't run things still. He is delibertly telling his son to take all the negative consequences for actions that he wouldn't do. Let the son that has been a complete failure in everything do all the things we wanted to but didn't want to take heat for.

Does Bush jr. have a clue? I wish I could really see what is going on in his head, some truth drug or something with a one on one. "Well I knew exactly what they were telling me to do was wrong and I would be the one to suffer" or "I did what I was told because daddy and his friends told me it would all be okay in the end and it would blow over."

I don't think this is a grudge thing, I think this has been in the works for the past 25 or so years, since the reagan administration came in and made deals with Iran for the release of the hostages.

[Dhul Fiqar]

Originally posted by Exploited [email protected] 29 2003, 07:39 AM
Nobody can get me to believe that Bush Sr. doesn't run things still. He is delibertly telling his son to take all the negative consequences for actions that he wouldn't do. Let the son that has been a complete failure in everything do all the things we wanted to but didn't want to take heat for.
That is a fucking brilliant theory - I have never thought of it that way before! :)

--- G.

[Desert Fox]

Originally posted by Exploited Class+Oct 28 2003, 11:39 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Exploited Class @ Oct 28 2003, 11:39 PM)
Desert [email protected] 28 2003, 02:28 PM
LOL &#33;&#33;&#33; And I thought he wanted to occupy Iraq to make daddy happy. Since I thought he had a grudge he didn&#39;t took out Saddam when he had the chance and his son had to do his dirty work. But however knowing bush and his family I don&#39;t see any truth in his statement ...
I wonder if Bush Jr. knows that he was setup for failure? Everything that Bush Sr. said is true and is proving very true and he knew that all of this was going to happen, yet he told his son to do that which he knew would deystroy him as a President.

Nobody can get me to believe that Bush Sr. doesn&#39;t run things still. He is delibertly telling his son to take all the negative consequences for actions that he wouldn&#39;t do. Let the son that has been a complete failure in everything do all the things we wanted to but didn&#39;t want to take heat for.

Does Bush jr. have a clue? I wish I could really see what is going on in his head, some truth drug or something with a one on one. "Well I knew exactly what they were telling me to do was wrong and I would be the one to suffer" or "I did what I was told because daddy and his friends told me it would all be okay in the end and it would blow over."

I don&#39;t think this is a grudge thing, I think this has been in the works for the past 25 or so years, since the reagan administration came in and made deals with Iran for the release of the hostages. [/b]
That should atleast explain why he suddenly stopped the first gulf war. I always was confused why he suddenly stopped his war. But now it makes more sense, he didn&#39;t want to take the blame like you said. Intresting theory and very likely theory. Good work, I must say ...